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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.
Mia, we see, is near the end of her psychological rope.
We jump quickly around in a series of confusing flashbacks until we grab hold of
the main story: Mia wakes up at her ex-girlfriend’s house in Istanbul after being found,
unconscious and near death, at the scene of a massacre — and unable to remember
what led up to her collapse. Her mother, Jane (OSF veteran Caroline Shaffer), has flown
out from San Francisco, and the three women begin to solve the mystery.
In the end, unseen is more given to simplistic ethical issues than much humanity.
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This is not the OSF of the past. The company has long been dedicated to racial
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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. ■
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