A Dream of Love: Interpreting the Dream Ballet in OSF’s Oklahoma!

Kelly Bulkeley — Thu, 03 May 2018 23:24:11 +0000

Peeling away Freudian assumptions to reach a deeper human truth about the capacity to love. A radiant new production of the musical Oklahoma! at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival re-interprets a classic American love story for contemporary audiences. With bold innovations in casting, staging, and choreography, the OSF production differs in many ways from the 1943 …

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The Horrors of the Dream Ballet in “Oklahoma!”

Kelly Bulkeley — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 01:02:30 +0000

A brilliant exploration of the dark psychological depths of sexual desire appears in an unlikely place—a country musical from the 1940’s. Oklahoma! was the first collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the duo who went on to write many of Broadway’s most famous mid-century musicals. A new production of Oklahoma! at the Oregon …

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A Dream of Love: Interpreting the Dream Ballet in OSF’s Oklahoma!

The Horrors of the Dream Ballet in “Oklahoma!”