SOURCE: Armstrong, Alan. “The 1997 Oregon Shakespeare Festival.” Shakespeare Bulletin 16, no. 2 (spring 1998): 33-7.
In the following excerpt, Armstrong appraises the Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Timon of Athens as directed by Penny Metropulos, noting that the director viewed the play as a work-in-progress and took a number of liberties with the text in order to quicken the pace of the production.