Word: petruchio
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...answer, surprisingly, is both. Although the zany prologue begins the production on a hysterical note, that wonderful craziness begins to wither away early into the actual play. Nearly everyone dons period costumes after the prologue, which makes Kate's t-shirt and jeans and Petruchio's black vinyl pants look out of place rather than creative. The lighting, while fine for some moments, misses its mark most of the time, and hides from the audience some of the most gifted and expressive actors this school has to offer. The set is adequate, but nothing special...
Some of the multiple-player scenes did succeed in pacing themselves successfully. Such was the case in a scene from The Taming of the Shrew: Steindler, a ferocious Kate, and Hanson, as a positively alarming Petruchio, managed somehow to give the comic scene a deeply sinister overcast. A more complete success was the closing selection, Lady Macbeth's famous sleepwalking episode from Macbeth, in which Staniunas as the somnabulant homicide and Wood as her Gentlewoman gave a deeply disturbing performance. The JCR's lighting was fully exploited to create a frighteningly shadowy scene...
Like Katharina and Petruchio in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, the Democrats and the South have long had trouble deciding whether they would rather fight or make love. Beginning in 1948, Southern voters, traditionally Democratic, became increasingly embittered by the national party's liberal tendencies. As a consequence, while the South remained more or less true to local and congressional Democrats, it began playing the field where presidential candidates were concerned. The Democrats toyed with the idea of a divorce, hoping to capture the White House with just the North and the West. But the landslide defeats...
...tease. Rhett and Scarlett remain rascals and opportunists. He continues to profit from the defeat of the Confederacy; she shrewdly expands her Atlanta business interests and plots her slippery husband's recapture. For those who were on Mars last week, the most famous bickerers in literature since Petruchio and Katharina get back together again. Although her contract with Mitchell's estate provides for a sequel to the sequel, Ripley says she will not write it. But tomorrow is another...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival at Ashland and its sister stage in Portland form the largest U.S. regional theater. New artistic director Henry Woronicz plays Petruchio in The Shrew through September; he * directs Jerry Sterner's Other People's Money, a satire of corporate raiders, through October; both at Ashland...