About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:

OPS Fest brings FREE, family-friendly Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter/"referee." Gender fluid casting is our jam, and you'll never see the same show twice!

BYO chairs or blanket.

See our full season schedule here; various shows run through Aug. 29.

Loves Labour's Lost in 50 words:

Forgetting the French Princess is arriving soon, King Ferdinand and friends swear off women. The courtiers are smitten. Letters are sent and confused. Berowne reasons ways out of the oath. The French court departs, but will return in one year to marry the King and courtiers... if they prove worthy.

Loves Labour's Lost

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