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...introduction to the play, ASP Artistic Director Allyn Burrows invites the audience to “Get in, sit down, shut up, and hold on!” Yet even Kate, Shakespeare’s famous anti-heroine, feels oddly timid. Poorly executed fight choreography abounds, such as Kate??s unconvincing knee-to-the-crotch and the lame food fight which opens the second act. By that point, it feels as if the titular “shrew” has already been tamed. What’s left to watch after that...
...again, this directorial move seems to invoke the ideas of gender relations in the play above themes of transformation. Beyond that, the casting (which includes eight men and only one woman, playing Kate) seems to play towards the gender themes as well. Bensussen may have been intrigued by Kate??s transformation rather than the conflict of genders, but the production itself certainly does not reflect that...
Popular adaptations of “The Taming of the Shrew”—“Kiss Me Kate?? or “Ten Things I Hate About You”—emphasize the opinion that the play is a portrait of misogyny and a comedic study of gender relations—one that continues to entertain. “We never grow tired of looking at how men and women fight and fall in love,” Evett says. But he and the Project see even more relevant themes beneath that...
...Kate??s journey is about figuring out how to play nice with others, and that’s not something that she does naturally,” Bensussen says. “With this cultural moment and this presidency, we’re looking for civility in discourse and we want to find a vocabulary for collaboration and not obstinacy, and the play speaks to that in that it can create harmony in that...
...09—successfully presents the big picture, despite technical inconsistencies in the acting.The play reveals the undeclared psychological warfare that results when the enigmatic Anna (Renée L. Pastel ’09) visits her old roommate, Kate (Julia L. Renaud ’09), and Kate??s husband, Deeley (Daniel R. Pecci ’09). As the two women reminisce about old times, questions are raised about the nature of memory and the relationships between the three characters. Deeley and Anna engage in a battle over who really “possesses?...