WILD OATS
by John O'Keeffe

Directed by Kirk Boyd
previews April 2 & 3
performs April 4-5, 10- 13 and 17-20
produced with Willamette Repertory Theatre and performed at the Hult Center

A rollicking Restoration comedy, Wild Oats features a roving player named (not surprisingly) Rover, who takes his cues from Shakespeare's speeches and characters even when he is off-stage.

Throughout the play the audience may recognize bits of "Richard III",
"Twelfth Night," "Hamlet," "MacBeth," and "King Lear," requiring the
actor who plays Rover to hop in and out of those parts as well, at least for a line or two.

Rover's ability to assume different roles propels himself and a huge cast of off-the-wall characters into a plot of mistaken identity, love affairs, and even a reunion with long-lost relatives. It's a romantic comedy lark, full of rogues and ruffians, lovers and lunatics, impostors and hypocrites, mischances and misapprehensions.