Word: kates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kiss Me Kate. Cole Porter's grand musical uses Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew as a jumping-off point. Presented at the People's Theatre, 1253 Cambridge Street, Cambridge. Friday...
...Times, the past, heavy with deceit, seeps into the present, muddying and reshaping it. The one who can control "old times" by enunciating its secrets will emerge victorious in the power struggle whose prize is possession of the voluptuous Kate...
...Pinter's stage directions advise. In the Loeb Ex's sensitive production, however, the final spotlight rests on Anna. The meaning of the ending thus shifts slightly: Anna's inclusion in the household becomes as important as Kate's victory. Our last glimpse is of the unhappy equilibrium the three combatants have reached...
...Grumbach seems at all inadequate, it is because his costars are so nearly perfect. Laura Bartell's Anna is a superbly controlled performance. Her monologues ring with the passion of nostalgia; her eyes, gazing longingly at Kate, and her face, later crumpled with pain, convey decades of meaning...
Playing opposite her, Cornelia Ravenel makes a low-key, sensuous and soft-spoken Kate. Enwrapped in fantasy, she lounges on her divan, her eyes half-closed, as her two lovers fight for the territory of her body; then, terrible in her knowledge, she strikes back, her soft voice hissing vindictiveness. It is all remarkably effective...