What Shakespeare Can Teach Ojai

Ojai: Talk of the Town · Apr 21, 2020 · 50m

We check in with Michael Addison, distinguished Shakespeare actor, director and producer, former artistic director of the California Shakespeare Festival and founder of the Bell Arts Factory.

In 1603 and 1613, the Globe Theater (and other theaters) in London were closed an astonishing 60 percent of the time due to plaque-related quarantines. It is believed that some of Shakespeare's finest works, King Lear among them, were written during these extended periods of isolation. Addison reminiscences about Angus Bowmer, founder of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, which began as an…