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Shrew in the Adams House Kronauer Space is not so much a presentation of Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew as it is an homage to it. Director Julia Jarcho '03 uses The Taming of the Shrew as a point of departure in a fast-paced exploration of the collective drives and desires in our sex-charged modern culture. Stripping the text to the barest of its essentials (four performers and a running time of under an hour), Jarcho built upon the loose structural foundation by incorporating erotic readings from and about Pauline Reage's 1965 The Story...
...Director Jarcho wanted Shrew to be painful to watch in a good way; though generally evocative, this production tends to show the audience its edge without actually cutting anyone with it. If anything even vaguely experimental ever happened in the Loeb Experimental Theatre, then Shrew might have had a home. As is, this production is both a remarkable exercise of an under-utilized alternative theatrical space and an effective revisitation of a powerful and poignant comedy...
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...with Julia Jarcho `03 and Melia Marden `03. Marden has a Greek midterm at 10 a.m. and thinks it's important to eat a full meal beforehand. "You have to eat or else your stomach is all growly and you can't concentrate," she reasons. Jarcho disagrees but still sports a full tray of edibles, explaining, "I couldn't resist the food." "You eat muffins?" I ask her. "No, never," Jarcho says. I point to a muffin on her tray, and ask, "But that is a muffin...