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(Theater Review) The Taming of the Shrew

8.7.05
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Founder's Theatre through September 3, 2005

You know you're going to be in very good hands from the very first moments of this production, when the first thing that happens is an actor comes into the theater, through the audience, and barfs on a patron.

This, in a nutshell, is Shakespeare & Company at its best, and this TAMING OF THE SHREW is Shakespeare & Company at its best: witty, irreverent, comic, more than a little over the top, but also fully committed to the text and to plumbing the depths of Shakespeare's script in order to wring out every possible nuance of meaning.

Director Daniela Varon gets credit for assembling a stellar ensemble, as well as for empowering her talented crew of actors to explore the dramatic and comic potential of their roles to the utmost.

This SHREW is a galloping romp featuring clowns, acrobatics, music, stupid pet tricks, Monty Python jokes, audience interaction, and more twists and turns than a pretzel.

In a cast deep with talent, those who stand out include the multitalented comic actor David Josef Hansen as a lord and Grumio, Jonathan Croy as Baptista Minola, Matthew Stucky as Lucentio, and Rocco Sisto as a commanding and powerful Petruchio.

Celia Madeoy, in the role of Katherina, the shrew, hits all the right notes of shrewishness early on, and is equally convincing as one who is tamed.

Daniela Varon presumably wants this Shrew to be taken seriously, too, as something of a proto-feminist narrative, and she fully earns that right even as she stages a comic masterpiece that will be long-beloved and long-remembered among this summer's audiences.





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