dates: Aug. 10 - Sept. 3, 2006
8 p.m. Thursday — Sunday
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments,” says our poet. It seems to be a lesson he himself learned the hard way. The lesson being: To become ‘true’, first some minds have to be changed – at whatever the cost and the ‘impediments’! In a very modern and very true ‘take’ on the original, OSP sets this love story in the historical heart of our own Southwest. Come see how well Shakespeare’s Padua and our own Wild West share strong-willed women, manly men, all manner of ‘varmints’ and a raucously funny evening in the theatre.
Left: Ariel Allison (Bianca) and Right: Rodney Brazil (Lucentio).
Photo credit to Andrea Norris.
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Aug. 12 - Sept. 4
Bicentennial Park - Downtown OKC One of Shakespeare's most thrilling and popular plays, Romeo and Juliet confronts each new generation with its passion and force. Through the hate of warring factions, in defiance of their families and in secrecy from their closest friends, a young couple risk all they have to be together. Director Kathryn McGill explores the play set in a volatile modern world. (show info)
