Past Productions
Bard in the Quad has had a rich history. The ground breaking performance in 2006, Romeo and Juliet started it all. In 2007, the WWII era production of Much Ado about Nothing took us for a ride. And last year, we all fell in love again during A Midsummer Night's Dream.
2008 A Midsummer Night's Dream
In the style of the great silent films of the early 1910s and 1920s, A Midsummer Night's Dream enchanted and charmed all who saw it under a midsummer night's sky. Adapted and directed by Scott Palmer.
2007 Much Ado about Nothing
The second annual production of Bard in the Quad took place in late July and early August of 2007, featuring ten performances of Shakespeare’s comic/romantic exploration of the battle of the sexes, Much Ado about Nothing. The production was once again adapted and directed by Scott Palmer; performed in a WWII era style, including military uniforms, big band music, swing dancing, "Rosie the Riveter" costumes and large period set pieces (including military jeeps and aircraft of the period). Much Ado broke all previous box office records, attracting over 4,200 people to performances outdoors in the Quad.
2006 Romeo and Juliet
In August of 2006, the Oregon State University Theatre produced the first outdoor production of a work by William Shakespeare
on the OSU campus in nearly 100 years. 
Adapted and directed by Scott Palmer, Romeo and Juliet featured a cast of student and
community actors, large-scale installation set pieces and a large audience capacity... all located outdoors in the spectacular
surroundings of the Memorial Union Quad. The production was a huge critical and popular success, attracting nearly 3,000 audience
members over an extended run, drawing significant statewide and local press coverage, and achieving some of the highest audience
attendance figures in the history of OSU theatre.
