Ohio Shakespeare Festival
Mission
Ohio Shakespeare Festival regards the actors, the script and the audience as the quintessential elements of the theatre, and is dedicated as a professional theatre company to articulating the specifically theatrical components of scripts by Shakespeare in a manner that will enable the collected imaginations of the artists to meet the collective imagination of the audience in a public celebration that can transform the world we live in.
“If you’ve ever wished that a Shakespeare production could somehow be outfitted with annotations and footnotes, to help you understand what’s going on at every moment, there’s a much easier (and more enjoyable) alternative. Just sit in the audience while the Ohio Shakespeare Festival is performing. As supervised by artistic director Terry Burgler, each OSF outing is a marvel of clarity and precision, rendering even the most obtuse digressions by Will suddenly comprehensible. The result is a kind of euphoric time travel in which one feels transported back 400 years to the Globe Theatre, relishing all of the bard’s words with immediate glee just as his audiences did then.”