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...this summer, Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater decides to end their eclectic season with one of Bill's more controversial works, "The Taming of the Shrew." But the big question remains: is this production yet another bland, unadventurous side dish on the already-full plate of generic Shakespearean theater, or does it break through the gelatin mold as the summer's most delectable new entree...
...eatery had to cancel a live performance by musician Merrie Amsterberg. Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre also canceled its opening night performance of Taming of the Shrew at the Loeb Experimental The-ater, sending a sold out crowd--as well as an eager cast--home disappointed...
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...
...building. Sometimes they also show old movies on a giant screen. But the Boston Ballet is also quite good. In addition to their traditional Christmas performance of "The Nutcracker" (which was completely overhauled last winter), they do innovative works. Last year they performed Shakespeare's comedy "Taming of the Shrew...
...Boston Ballet has an eclectic agenda for its 31st season. The company's program includes traditional ballets which feature three radically different kinds of heroines--the betrayed in "Giselle," the doll which comes to life in "Coppelia," and the spunky Kate in "The Taming of the Shrew." In addition, the Boston Ballet's 1994-95 season blends the classic with the modern in American Festival I and II, two ballets which feature the works of recent American ballet luminaries like Cunningham, Feld, Balanchine, Taylor, and Tharp...