Word: shrews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...varsity women took third, behind Brown and Connecticut College, at the Radcliffe-hosted Sloop Shrew Saturday and yesterday...
...EVERYTHING in Britain idles before it starts, and once this film gets going, it really spec along Maggic Smith is fantastic--both in the nagging shrew she shows to Gilbert and the fawning but conniving social climber she reveals to Swaby. She also captures the essence of the British housewife, a special mis of dignified pretention and repressed horniness expressed in statements like, "My dear, this calls for sexual intercourse...
...such a project. Full-length ballets do better at the box office than evenings of shorter pieces. The Joffrey, never a company in robust financial health, turned naturally to the work of the late John Cranko because the Joffrey had success when it staged his Taming of the Shrew. Similarly, A.B.T. went to MacMillan, who signed on five months ago as "artistic associate" to Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov. Each organization claimed ignorance of the other's plans until it was too late to change them. The result is that audiences in Washington, Los Angeles and New York City will have...
...PRODUCTION of theatrical lese majeste par excellence, this Taming of the Shrew is rich in intelligence and little strokes of genius, and wildly short of a unifying vision. The key dichotomy is between the feminist intent and the burlesque setting. Burlesque and Shakespearean comedy are close in many ways, and sometimes the technical devices have been successfully transplanted. But the spirit of burlesque is completely antithetical to McDonough's tragicomic conception of the Shakespeare work...
About two years ago a movie version of Pennies from Heaven was released, starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. It sank like a stone at the box office, but it succeeded where this Shrew failed. In Pennies, the brilliant images of the 30$ musicals are shown as the only release of sordid Depression reality. In Taming, the sordid realities of the burlesque theater are stretched to-carry an anachronistic theme of female subjugation. Pennies, for all of its jarring idiosyncacies, was a thoughtful reinterpretation of the American myth of the big musicals; Taming is equally thoughtful, but the theme...