The season was advertised as an "adventure" to support a "remarkable risk-taking group," and used a quote from the Marquis de Sade: "We believe that every situation is at the disposition of the novelist...only fools will be scandalized. True virtue was never frightened...by pictures of vice..." The season opened with two of Bertolt Brecht's Lehrstücke: "The Measures Taken" and "The Exception and the Rule". Both were directed by Rich Burroughs with interested students from Reed College, currently studying Brecht and Epic Theatre. Melissa Marsland directed "The Walls"by Argentine absurdist Griselda Gambaro, and Burroughs directed a New Historicist experiment called "The Jew of Venice", a study of English Renaissance portrayals of Jewish characters.