PORT ANGELES — Actors from the nationally known Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Ore., will bring three programs to Peninsula College on Thursday.
All programs, open to students and the public at no charge, will take place in the Little Theater on the main campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Despite the name, the performers don’t just do Shakespeare; their first free program, titled “One Step Beyond,” samples a variety of literature in a performance in the campus’ Little Theater at 10:20 a.m.
In this hourlong presentation, actors Omoze Idehenre and Jeremy Thompson will perform selected scenes from “Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter” by Julie Marie Myatt, “The Philadelphia” by David Ives, “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare and “Our Lady of 121st Street” by Stephen Adly Guirgis.
Second show
Then comes the second show at 12:35 p.m. in the Little Theater. It’s Shakespeare all the way, an excerpt from “Hamlet” starring Idehenre and Thompson.
The 50-minute performance is this week’s Studium Generale program, co-sponsored by the Peninsula College English Department and the Foothills Writers Series.
Right after “Hamlet,” the Oregon Shakespeare Festival artists will give a 45-minute actors workshop for students and other community members who have viewed at least one of Thursday’s performances.
There’s no need to sign up for this free class at 1:45 p.m., said Peninsula College English professor Janet Lucas; participants are encouraged to simply show up.
For information about these activities, contact Lucas at jlucas@pencol.edu or her colleague, Peninsula College professor Kate Reavey, at kreavey@pencol.edu.
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