PORT ANGELES — Two free, public performances are set for this Tuesday (Nov. 26) as actors from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival visit Peninsula College.
Benjamin Pelteson and Eduardo Placer, a pair of performers from the famed Shakespeare festival in Ashland, Ore., will first offer a diverse program of Shakespeare and other material at 9:10 a.m. Tuesday in the Little Theater on the main campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
The show will be only 50 minutes, but it has a long title: “To Be or Not to Be (or The Problem of Happiness and How to Achieve It by W. Shakespeare and various other dudes).”
In this performance, the actors will dish out pieces including “Half Full/Half Empty,” which they wrote:
“The Misanthrope” by Moliére; “Lovely” from Stephen Sondheim’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum;” Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” “Hamlet” and “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail.”
Then at 12:35 p.m. in the Little Theater, Pelteson and Placer will present a 50-minute all-Shakespeare program highlighting “The Tempest.” The actors will perform an adapted version of the play, written circa 1610.
Pelteson has studied at both Carnegie Mellon University and the Moscow Art Theater School and performed in the Shakespeare Festival and in television shows such as “Homeland” and “Law and Order.”
Placer has appeared in theaters across the country, from Ashland to the La Jolla Playhouse in California to the Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland, Ohio.
For information about Tuesday’s free performances and other public events on campus, visit www.pencol.edu or see the Peninsula College page on Facebook.
