The Taming of the Shrew
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 17, 2012
Closed Apr 20, 2012
Opened Mar 17, 2012
Closed Apr 20, 2012
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Fresh from her triumphs with the tragedies of Othello and Macbeth starring John Douglas Thompson, Theatre for a New Audience's associate artistic director Arin Arbus turns to comedy. For Ms. Arbus, in The Taming of the Shrew, "Shakespeare depicts a rough world where everyone is out for themselves -- scheming, fooling and hiding beneath disguises. Kate and Petruchio are the only characters who see things as they are. The play is an intimate, brutal, hilarious negotiation between a husband and wife about the terms of their contract, about their respective roles and responsibilities. What's remarkable about their relationship is not that they fight, but that through their wars, they find love and mutual admiration. As Harold Bloom writes 'Kate and Petruchio...are clearly going to be the happiest married couple in Shakespeare.'"
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Arin Arbus certainly has a way with William Shakespeare, as she's previously proven with her first-rate productions of Othello, Macbeth and Measure for Measure. Now she gives us a downright rib-tickling The Taming of the Shrew, now being presented by Theatre for a New Audience at The Duke on 42nd Street.
Faced with a sometimes problematic work for modern audiences, Arbus has wisely
cast a troupe of genuinely amusing comic actors -- and having guessed them up in Anita Yavich's wild Wild-West costumes on Donyale Werle's all-wooden saloon set -- presents them almost as if they're clowns emerging from a circus car.
For this go-round, Petruchio (Andy Grotelueschen) comes to now-Westernized P[...]