Word: ashland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HENRY IV, PART II. The darkest and most brooding of the Bard's histories is richly illuminated by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival at Ashland...
...Guthrie emphasizes European drama, including adaptations of fiction, in a schedule rarely leavened by a conventional comedy or musical. Unlike its rivals in total audience, the Shakespeare festivals in Ashland, Ore., and Stratford, Ont., it depends chiefly on its heartland community rather than tourists. And it is plainly prized by that constituency: the Guthrie is filling more than 80% of the house for almost 250 performances this season. It derives a hefty 54% of operating costs from the box office, with local corporations subsidizing a further 13% of the $8.5 million annual budget. While a dip in subscription sales last...
...biggest resident theater company in North America is not to be found in New York City, Los Angeles or Chicago. Nor, as stage cognoscenti might suppose, is it in a thriving regional center like Minneapolis, home of the Guthrie, or a festival city like Ashland, site of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival. The champion -- as measured cumulatively by number of productions and performances, size of troupe, total audience and budget -- is located in an unpretentious town in the Canadian province of Ontario, about 90 miles from the skyscrapers of Toronto. It is a place that began with scarcely any claim...
...been hard on the whistle-blowers. Says McKay: "I would not urge anyone to subject their families to what I've had to do. If you stand up and insist on not going along with wrongdoing, you're going to have people try to crush you." Recalls Williams: "Ashland Oil had been my life. I felt fiercely loyal to the company, but I felt betrayed." Both men believe they were blacklisted by the petroleum industry after they left Ashland. The executives can hope, though, that their victory may bring about some change in corporate ethics. Says Thomas Dunfee, a professor...
...company's troubles began in 1979, when the U.S. Government embargoed oil from Iran. Since Ashland had depended on Iran for 25% of its crude supplies, the firm scrambled to find alternative sources. In so doing, the jury ruled, Ashland resorted to bribery: in 1980 and 1981, according to court records, the company paid $49 million to government officials in Oman and Saudi Arabia and a government representative in Abu Dhabi to obtain oil. Ashland attorneys had argued that the payments were legal and were made to private consultants...