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...Shrew in the Adams House Kronauer Space is not so much a presentation of Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew as it is an homage to it. Director Julia Jarcho '03 uses The Taming of the Shrew as a point of departure in a fast-paced exploration of the collective drives and desires in our sex-charged modern culture. Stripping the text to the barest of its essentials (four performers and a running time of under an hour), Jarcho built upon the loose structural foundation by incorporating erotic readings from and about Pauline Reage's 1965 The Story...
...didn't catch Timon of Athens last weekend but still want to get your fix of Shakespeare, then check out Shrew, an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, this weekend in the Adams House Kronauer Space. Reduced to a cast of four, this production promises to explore one of the Bard's best known and most controversial plays in a dynamic...
based on The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare...
This adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew features only four actors, one for Petruchio ("the tamer"), one for Kate ("the shrew"), one for Kate's sister Bianca and one for everyone else. This should be the perfect environment for the repartee between Kate and Petruchio, in the Shakespearean play that just might qualify for the record of most insults per square inch. But with lines like, "Thy husband is thy life, thy lord, thy keeper" in the conclusion, the director has some explaining to do to a modern audience. This production takes the approach that the play is more...
...Shrew...