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...TAMING OF THE SHREW (PBS, Jan 26, 8 p.m., E.S.T.) It is a bad sign when a producer feels he must apologize for Shakespeare, but that is precisely what Jonathan Miller does at the beginning of this play, the 13th in the BBC's Shakespeare series. The Taming of the Shrew is sexist, he says, but it was, after all, written almost 400 years ago. Miller's patronizing tone may explain the flaw of this otherwise worthy production: it is not fun. The scenery is stunning, the direction fine, and Sarah Badel and John Cleese are engaging...
...face. The typical Hollywood starlet may think that August Strindberg is a hot new agent, but Streep played Miss Julie at Vassar. Beginning her professional stage career in New York only four years ago, she conquered prized roles in Shakespeare (Measure for Measure, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew), Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard) and Brecht-Weill (Happy End), as well as in works by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. This repertory training came to Meryl because she was ready for it; her education went on in public, but critics and audiences did the learning. Director Arvin Brown expresses what...
...actors. He told a friend. "If I can't act better than those two. I'd better give up." The friend got a friend to hear Hughes read, and hired him to play a one-line role in Frank Lee Short's production of "The Taming of the Shrew...
...talk about standards. Perhaps I used the wrong word before. How can you talk about Kiss Me, Kate and apply standards? Look, you have a simple story about a director, Fred Graham, and his ex-wife, Lilli Vanessi who are putting on a performance of The Taming of the Shrew. You see their backstage shenanigans as well as their performances in the play. We threw in a couple of gangsters because they're always funny. But that's not a quality story by any means. With my music and some dancing, however, it works very well on stage...
...head when she jumps (and she leaps the night away). Her attacks are almost stabbing. Her fan flips constantly - unless she is using it to poke Basil. She so clearly relishes keeping him in line that one wonders if there isn't a bit of a shrew in his future...