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...truth: that in a world ever more connected, the actions of a regular individual can light up the whole globe in an instant. And for centuries the walls of the grand palaces and castles of the Old World have been filled with ceremonial and often highly flattering pictures of noblemen and bewigged women looking out toward the posterity they hope to shape...
...aesthetic conception of this production is intriguing. The "town" of Titipu has been transformed into "Titipu, Inc."--a software mega-corporation--and the noblemen of the town become identically-suited business executives who try to juggle their brief-cases, beepers and cellular phones to amusing effect. The "schoolgirl" chorus which accompanies our recently-graduated heroines has been transformed, through a stroke of sheer genius, into a hyper-modernized version of the Japanese schoolgirl: the archetype found ubiquitously in the cartoons (anime) which permeate Japanese popular culture. Decked out in characteristic anime schoolgirl uniforms--white blouses, hot pink neckties, suggestively tiny...
...cast itself is chock-full of dynamic players. Amblad and O'Toole, as Petruchio/the Lord-ette and Hortensio/the first Hunter-ette, respectively, show great versatility as actors in their shift from effeminate pranksters to clever, sophisticated noblemen. Jesse Hawkes's cane-waving, unexpectedly spry Gremio stands out as one of the show's best comic touches, as do the hilarious antics of Grumio (Doug Miller) and Biondello (Andrew Mandel '00, a Crimson editor). Even Tranio, played by Adam Green '99, though not as facially expressive as the rest of the cast, has good comic timing and blends in well with...
What he gave them specifically was the past and the present unfrightened by each other. He taught them Macbeth and Gatsby. The problem was how to persuade kids who have been told that they live on the fringes of society that the sturmings of ancient Scottish noblemen and of rich Long Islanders in pink summer shirts had something to offer their lives. The answer (Could he make them believe it?) was that they too had the hearts of kings and the longing for a green light at the end of a dock. And culture was a two-way street...
With the Western Avenue stop light swinging uselessly over the stage, eighteenth century noblemen, dreadlocked students and young parents with children perched on their shoulders swayed back and forth to tunes like "Bourgeois" and "Let Them Eat Rock...