Over the weekend of Sept. 29, 27 upper school students traveled to Ashland, Ore., to visit the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), which was nearing the end of its 2012 season.

The students saw performances of the Shakespeare plays “Troilus and Cressida,” “Henry V,” “Romeo and Juliet” and a modern-day take on “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” which takes place just after the Iowa caucuses and features a United States senator as the main character.

Students also had the opportunity to participate in a workshop with OSF actors on the finer points of acting and production, and were taken on a tour of the festival’s three theaters.