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...same split: secretaries sided with Thomas while their male and female bosses took Hill's side. When J.C. Alvarez came forward as a witness for the judge and described Hill as aloof and ambitious, she played a real-life version of Tess, the secretary pitted against a Wall Street shrew in the movie Working Girl. Peggy Noonan, a former speechwriter for George Bush, calls it a division "between clever people who talk loudly in restaurants and those who seat them." However they are described, the two groups are separated by privilege. "Both working-class women and highly educated women...
...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...
...this part summer's Central Park Shakespeare series, sponsored by The New York Public Theatre. "We have been casting across racial lines since producer Joseph Papp started the Theatre in 1954" explains a Theatre spokesperson. "Morgan Freeman appeared recently in our production of The Taming of the Shrew...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW...
...sometimes shows himself to be, unmistakably and unattractively, a man of his times. The Merchant of Venice is so bluntly anti-Semitic that most modern directors infuse their staging with irony, distorting the play into a covert dissent against bigotry. Just as problematic is The Taming of the Shrew, which treats women as economic or sexual prizes and delights in detailing how one husband breaks his wife's spirit through starvation, humiliation, irrationality and hints of violence. Most contemporary renditions warp the play into a feminist satire...