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Sheila Tousey and Rainbow Dickerson in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s “Manahatta,” which streams as part of the theater’s 2021 season. Photo: Jenny Graham, Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2018
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Two centuries of colonization in ‘Manahatta’
The past isn’t past at all in Mary Kathryn Nagle’s “Manahatta.” “Indeed,” she writes in a note at the top of her script, the past and present “are one and the same.”
The show, whose 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival production is streaming as an early entry in the theater’s digital and in-person hybrid season, takes place in both the 17th and 21st centuries.
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Publishing date: Dec 16, 2020 • December 16, 2020 • 4 minute read • Eden Tremayne, soprano and 2020-21 Calgary Opera Emerging Artist, with The Yuletide Sessions musical director, Mark Morash. Photo courtesy, Harder Lee Photo jpg
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When Mark Morash was asked to join Calgary Opera in mid-October by CEO Heather Kitchen he wasn’t given much time to ponder the most obvious question: What on earth could an opera company be doing when stages around the world have gone dark due to COVID-19?