Several weeks ago I traveled up to Ashland, OR with my son’s eighth grade class for a week long trip to attend the Shakespeare Festival . We had a fantastic time! We camped at beautiful Immigrant Lake, attended several plays and a couple prologues, took the backstage tour, toured the beautiful heart of Ashland daily, played at Lithia Park (even drank the disgusting Lithium water from the public drinking fountain — can you say sulfur? Bleck!), played with some costumes of our own, and had a generally wonderful time together. However, this post is just a sprinkling of our experience up there, as the photographs are too numerous to post, and I mainly wanted to add this post in the spirit of Halloween, and show you some of the beautiful costumes that are worn in these plays. As you may have guessed, you are not allowed to photograph on any of the tours, or during performances, so the costumes you see here are on display in a window at the Shakespeare Festival Visitor Center. Still awesome!
So lets get started, welcome to Ashland, OR!
The incredible outdoor Elizabethan theatre and a really awesome MacBeth!
Some of the beautiful costumes used at the Festival.
A lovely florist shop with a chocolate bar, as in chocolate you can drink, wow!
A couple of happy parent chaperones enjoying this ‘sweet’ venue.
Clearly he’s had too much of the chocolate drink!
So much beauty around.
We found a funky costume shop of our own. It was a kick hanging with these girls, I love them all!
Enjoying our spoils.
A quick shot of our prologue host front-loading us for the afternoon’s play, which was MacBeth. If this guy looks familiar, Google him, his name is David DeSantos. He’s not only on stage, but movies and t.v. as well. He did a superb job of engaging us in the story to come.
Some props around the room during the prologue.
Uh huh, a beautiful cup of coffee completes this episode of exquisite Ashland. For all of my fellow parents of this class, you know you will see hundreds of photographs from our time in Ashland. Patience though, ’tis a busy season for me. And, in the words of our lovely teacher ‘thank you for your children’. I can’t believe this is our last year together as a class. It has truly been an honor to be able to attend so many trips with these beautiful young adults and document them through the grades. What a slideshow we’ll have at the end of the year! Gotta go before I start crying, I love them all.
Kathi
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