LBCC Hosts Oregon Shakespeare Festival Actors

OSF actors Benjamin Pelteson, left, and Eduardo Placer.

Oregon Shakespearian Festival actors Benjamin Pelteson and Eduardo Placer will give two free performances on Friday, Nov.8 at Linn-Benton Community College as part of the OSF School Visit Program, which is open to the public.

The OSF actors will perform selections from Shakespeare’s Tempest as well as selections from more contemporary plays.

The first one-hour show, An Adaptation of The Tempest,” will be from 10 to 10:50 a.m. and features Shakespeare characters from The Tempest, which will be part of the upcoming OSF 2013 – 2014 season.

The second show, “To Be or Not To Be (or The Problem of Happiness and How to Achieve It by W. Shakespeare and various other dudes),” will be held from Noon to 12:50 p.m. and features a medley of scenes from Shakespeare and contemporary plays.

The actors also will hold a two-hour performance workshop at 2 p.m. All performances will take place in the LBCC Forum building, F-104, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. 

Pelteson has been with OSF for one season. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, his OSF credits include King Lear, Cymbeline, and Black Swan Lab.

Placer, a graduate of University of California, San Diego, has been with OSF for one season. His work with OSF includes Cockney Quartet 1, My Fair Lady, and The Heart of Robin Hood.

The 2013 OSF School Visit Program is funded by grants from the Bowmer Society, Sharkey Family Charitable Foundation, Joseph R. Parker Foundation, Lamb-Baldwin Foundation, Starseed Foundation, the Helen Clay Frick Foundation, and the Oregon Arts Commission.

The program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Robin Havenick at 541-917-4574. For disability accommodations, call 541-917-4789 or TDD 1-800-735-2900.