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...space has since been rebuilt as a theatre—with lighting, dressing rooms, a space for the audience, and a set based on the oft-overlooked induction to “The Taming of the Shrew.” The play itself deals with the unrealizable love of Lucentio for Bianca and Petruchio’s attempts to tame the obstinate object of his affection, Katherine, the titular “shrew.” The induction, though, establishes the story as a play within a play; a drunkard is subjected to a cruel trick that convinces...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Modern Take on Shakespeare’s ‘Shrew’ Goes on at the Square | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Modern Take on Shakespeare’s ‘Shrew’ Goes on at the Square | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...much-loved 1961 cover, Etta James famously sang, “I want a Sunday kind of love / A love to last past Saturday night.” Working its way through into one of the many warm, mesmeric scenes of Lone Scherfig’s new movie, “An Education,” the song becomes emblematic of the film itself. The melancholic strings and James’s wistful vocals are echoed in, and intertwined with, the sixties chic and rainy day intimacy of Nick Hornby’s latest screenplay...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'An Education' | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...Education” asks all the right questions but yields too few answers to satiate the promises of its brilliant first three-quarters. When Jenny and David go to Paris together, the film temporarily drops all its weight and scrawls a breathless love letter to the city and the good looks of the protagonists. The conclusion—which should either re-pose the film’s questions or provide some answers—conveniently forgets them, summarizing the next four years of Jenny’s life in a clichéd voice-over that almost kills...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'An Education' | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...field. He worries that the initiative will put him out of business altogether. "Nobody here really hears about us," he says. "We go to a corrida and then go home until the following Sunday, and we don't have any power. But there are plenty of Catalans who still love the bulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain's Catalonia Moves to Ban Bullfighting | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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