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When I was about sixteen, I hadn't read much Shakespeare. Forget the implications -- cinematic, literary or otherwise -- of Zeffirelli's "The Taming of the Shrew" for my unpenetrating mind; forget any sensation created by the Burton Taylor team. After the movie I remembered one character from the play, Lucentio. Played by Mr. York. "Romeo and Juliet," another Zeffirelli extravaganza? I could have ravedfor hoursabout the figure of Tybalt. Guess why. A year or so later I was ready to go to college. A serious academically inclined young lady? How super to read at Oxford or Cambridge; such a stimulating...
...combo, he blithely wraps himself in a cloak of Beethoven or Socrates to ward off Lucy's (Jackie Levy's) stubborn attacks. It's hard not to wince at the thought of what little Lucy will be like when she grows up. The strident beginnings of a first-class shrew increase her "crabbiness" ("it's undemocratic if I can't be Queen") to a screeching insufferability. Patty's (Sara Jane Aronin's) character drips from her big blue eyes. An exasperatingly dump blonde, she skips from scene to scene with her trusty jump-rope tied to knee, waist or wrist...
...other Thursday night productions are: "Coming and Going" at Adams House. "Under Milkwood" at Lowell House, "A Long Day's Journey Into Night" a Quincy House production in the Leverett House Old Library, and the "Taming of the Shrew" at Kirkland House...
Kirkland House--Bill Martin '72 thinks that interest in drama has waned at Kirkland House in recent years, but he will nevertheless direct The Taming of the Shrew there. After playing at Kirkland House December 2-4, the production is moving to the Loeb...
...Radcliffe's sailing team won the Sloop Shrew Trophy over the weekend on the Charles and demolished the three teams that finished ahead of it last weekend in the New England championships, when the Crimson failed to qualify for the Nationals...