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theater The Bard is Back AFTER TAKING 2021 OFF, A MUCH-CHANGED OSF KICKS OFF A NEW SEASON By Bob Keefer T he Oregon Shakespeare Festival is back. After two years of pandemic shutdown, made worse by summer wildfire closures and the layoffs of 90 percent of the nationally prominent theater’s performers and staff, OSF opened two live plays April 16 to kick off an eight-play season. Mona Mansour’s unseen is a tight little drama, cast with just three actors, that examines familiar issues surrounding conflict photogra- phy. Is it moral to take photos of suffering for a living? Shouldn’t the photographer put her cameras down and comfort the dying? How much risk should a journalist take for a story? As the lights come up in the festival’s small Thomas Theatre, where unseen runs through July 31, Mia (Helen Sadler) is having a low-energy argument with Salima (Nora el Samahy), a teacher she’s photographing amid the wreckage of a computer center. 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Director Evren Odcikin, one of OSF’s new associate artistic directors, does a good job of presenting a somewhat labored tale, but the beautifully intriguing set design by Mariana Sánchez upstages the work done by the three actors. Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s popular musical Once on This Island took over the large indoor Angus Bowmer Theatre, inviting us into a tale set in Haiti. The show, which opened on Broadway in 1990 and took a Tony for Best Revival of a Musical in 2018, is a sure-fire crowd pleaser, and this good-hearted production is no exception. In the story — an interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” — Ti Moune (played perfectly by Ciera Dawn), a young dark-skinned woman living in island poverty, saves the life of a French aristocrat's mixed-race son, Daniel (Domi- nique Lawson), after he’s badly injured in an accident. The charming young couple then struggles to forge their future together against the deep prejudices of both his family and hers and the occasional intervention of the gods. Directed by Lili-Anne Brown, the play is an energetic examination of love, fate, colonialism and racism — all made more interesting by non-stop music and dance. One of the best performances is turned in by Chuckie Benson as Papa Ge, the Demon of Death, with whom Ti Moune makes a fateful deal. See it if you’re in Ashland before it closes Oct. 30. This is not the OSF of the past. The company has long been dedicated to racial equity, but is now making that central to its mission — from the land acknowledgement before each show to the racial make-up of the company, which is now 73 percent BIPOC. OSF is also directly challenging its own past. In an interview with OPB on April 13, OSF Artistic Director Nataki Garrett said, “For a long time OSF has been resting on its laurels.” That may come as news to OSF fans who are used to reading about the festival’s successes in The New York Times. Such fast-moving change comes with bumps, such as confusion over whether I saw opening performances or previews on April 16. OSF announced in March the openings were to be on April 16, so I ordered seats; when I arrived, I read on the OSF website that the opening dates for the two shows were actually on April 22 and 23. Neither perfor- mance I saw had the zest of previous OSF openings, and unseen drew nowhere near a full house. An OSF spokesman later explained that I saw the actual openings, but the following weekend would include opening-night celebrations with donors. ■ For more on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and its season, go to OSFAshland.org. 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