Take a trip with VGT to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival July 16-20!

Victory Gardens Theater Cultural Tour to Ashland, Oregon July 16 – 20, 2008

Victory Gardens Theater has an exciting new trip lined up to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in beautiful Ashland, where the cool mountain air averages a delightful 70° F!

Travelers with the tour will be staying in Ashland’s “Bard’s Inn” where you’ll enjoy easy access to all of the performance venues. Our travel group, Insider Cultural Tours, will greet us on the first evening with a delicious meal, prepared by Executive Chef, Damon Jones in the luxurious Ashland Springs Hotel. The trip will be led by Victory Gardens Associate Artistic Director Sandy Shinner.

Victory Gardens Theater Trips travelers will enjoy access to the following Festival plays, the American classic “Our Town” in a lush outdoor setting, the delightful merriment of “The Comedy of Errors,” a muscular interpretation of “Othello” by Lisa Peterson, and a 2000 year old East Indian classic “The Clay Cart,” directed by new Artistic Director, Bill Rauch. An optional matinee of Luis Alfaro’s delightful comedy, “Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner,” will be available. Additionally, travelers will enjoy a wine-tasting at award-wining wineries in the Applegate Valley, complete with a gourmet boxed lunch and professional guide; a tour of Gold Rush town Jacksonville (National Historic Landmark); and a shopping stop at the famous Harry & David’s.

This trip to one of the nation’s oldest and largest professional, non-profit theatre festivals will be priced at $2,195 per person, based on double occupancy, with a single supplement of $310. The price includes airfare, 4 nights at the Bard’s Inn, roundtrip transportation from and to the Medford airport, tickets to all plays, a professional reading of new play (about AIDS in Africa), a welcome dinner, farewell cocktail reception, preface to “Our Town,” guest speaker and backstage tour, as well as a donation to Victory Gardens Theater. A land only price is available for $1,495. If you’re interested in traveling to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival or being added to the mailing list for all of Victory Gardens Theater Tours, please contact, Chris Biddle at 773-328-2130 or by email at cbiddle@victorygardens.org The deadline for registration for this trip is June 1, 2008