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Like a play within a play, any production of this work turns on the final understanding between Petruchio and his tamed shrew. She may finish by agreeing with her husband that a woman's duty is to be a "most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife." Call this a medieval Kate. Or, having been frozen, starved and exhausted by her dauntless husband, she may cry out like a trapped and beaten Kate. In recent years she has been played as an ironic Kate, addressing her last speech, on the submission of wives, directly to the audience as a private joke...
NOTHING IS EVER as it happens in Shakespeare, especially not in The Taming of the Shrew. Fumbling tutors are revealed to be bumbling lovers, sly lovers to be slyer servants and witty servants to be wise old men. Baptista Minola, a patriarch from Padua, thinks his problems are solved when he tells the suitors of his submissive daughter Bianca that she cannot be married before they find a husband for her "shrewish" sister Kate. But problems are never entirely eliminated in comedies. They are only, humorously, compounded. When Kate, the shrew, finishes the play as a lady and Bianca...
ALTHOUGH PUNCTUATED with terrific bangs of comic energy, the current Winthrop House production of The Taming of the Shrew trips and falls over the unmasking of its Kate. By accenting the fast-biting moments of Elizabethan wit, director Leah Rosovsky has left the meaning of the play unclear. The actors, dressed in a hodge-podge of costumes and too often blocked like isolated commentators on the action, come up each with their own interpretations. Jennifer Marre's shrew submits to her husband with an attempt at audience-directed irony. But Jonathan Epstein's Petruchio tries to woo her sincerely with...
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...
...Taming of the Shrew. Brush up your Shakespeare. "Modernized" by the Boston Shakespeare Company (for more information see Maceth) on Fridays...