Word: shrews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stars from Stuttgart. Cranko's company has chosen to concentrate on three full-length works, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet and Eugene Onegin, all richly staged and costumed and all choreographed by Cranko. He handles large groups of dancers with remarkable dramatic effect. But the Stuttgart Ballet has been devastating audiences all across the U.S. mainly because of the dancing of two new stars, Marcia Haydée and Richard Cragun...
COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Mary Rippon Theater, Boulder (Aug. 1-17). Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew and Henry VI (Part...
...Integrity! Freedom!" trumpeted the resolution passed by the Italian Association of Cinema Authors. "Any pornography or morbidity is preferable to repression." Strong words, and stronger still was the action taken by the association in angrily expelling famed Director Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew). His colleagues were enraged because Zeffirelli had been campaigning against the current flood of sex films in the Italian cinema, saying that they show sex as vulgar and ugly and suggesting that some moviemakers on the edge of bankruptcy had been saved by pornography. Countered Zeffirelli: "I committed no antidemocratic...
...company's three-week New York visit was one of his best, an evening-long interpretation of Pushkin's intensely romantic verse-drama Eugene Onegin. Two nights later, the company presented an even more stunning tour deforce, a balletic version of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Both were lavishly mounted, eye-filling pieces. Onegin uses a score by Music Director Kurt-Heinz Stolze based on short pieces by Tchaikovsky. The work moves quickly and assuredly through Pushkin's tale of romance and betrayal, never assuming the luxury of a dance-for-dance's-sake...
...Radcliffe regatta, one of the oldest New England Women's I.S.A. competitions, was originally to have been held in early April, but was postponed. The winner receives the Shrew...