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WOWSA! We are beyond thrilled that our labor of love, the community Bard-B-Q production of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) was recently honored with an Elliot Norton Award for Best Fringe Production by the Boston Theatre Critics Association (in addition to Steven Barkhimer's nomination for Best Director)!


We are humbled to be recognized once again alongside such fabulous theatre companies as Company One and the Gold Dust Orphans, and grateful for the opportunity to affirm our belief that at its core, theatre is about sharing an experience with the lady to your right, the performer up on stage AND the kid that's snorting root beer out his nose a few rows up.

We'll be hard at work this summer trying to surpass the bar that we've established for ourselves in previous experiences and have managed to achieve with the outpouring of support from the Boston theatre community and Boston audiences alike. As Risher so eloquently intoned at the end of each and every WOWSA performance, ?Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you?.we just wanted to say: THANK YOU.?

True THAT, Boston. Can't wait to surprise y'all again soon!

Until the next adventure,

Orfeo Group

Orfeo Group creates theatrical experiences that foster community and awaken a collective desire to question, reexamine and discover. In short, we seek to thrill. We offer our shows at low or no cost and regularly collaborate/cross pollinate with other artists and organizations by designing extension programming around our productions such as readings of new work, educational workshops and lectures.

A word on our name: mythologically speaking, Orpheus's songs and poetry elicited a visceral response from every thing around him. He descended into the underworld, armed only with his art, in pursuit of love. We marvel at this image and think that creating shared experiences with a bunch of other living, breathing human beings is a good way to both celebrate and honor it.

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The Island of Slaves (February 11th - March 6th. 2010)

“(A) vibrant and thoughtful production”

“Director Kathryn Walsh and the energetic young cast find all the wit in Neil Bartlett's adaptation of the text, and they add their own playful sense of physical humor to the mix. The result is an Island of Slaves that seeks to amuse as much as it enlightens.”

“By the time Berger-Jones makes his last, definitive gesture of command, we're at once filled with a sense of completion - a satisfying recognition of a vision thoroughly made real - and sorry to see the fantasy end.”
– Louise Kennedy, Boston Globe

“'Slaves' A masterful turn”

“Director Kathryn Walsh's production is nothing if not ambitious.”

“Island's five actors are clearly having the time of their lives, manically trading outfits or hanging each other from hooks, and there's bright chemistry at work.”
– Jenna Scherer, Boston Herald

“the cast finds the heart of a work that in the end counsels kindness and reason.”
–Carolyn Clay, Boston Phoenix

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