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A “Post-Feminist” Shrew
When we walk into the theater, there is man playing saloon music on a piano. A woman passes out bags of peanuts, and Christopher Sly (Matthew Cowles), an old, drunken bum who has been tricked into...
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A Laugh Riot at the Pearl
It is said that Pierre Beaumarchais’ The Marriage of Figaro foreshadowed the French Revolution—though Figaro (Sean McNall) is based on Brighella, a stock Commedia character, a servant who often outwits...
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The Top Ten Plays of 2012
This was a year of reinterpretation: only four of the plays on this list are new, and of those four, one is a rewriting of a classic American play, another a take on a ‘seventies American sitcom, and a...
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I Am Not That I Play: Tina Packer’s Women of Will
It seems appropriate to begin Women of Will, a personal exploration of gender, sex, and power in Shakespeare, with an excerpt from The Taming of the Shrew. But despite a lifetime of working with the...
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A Very Merry War
Last year, Arin Arbus directed a wonderful Taming of the Shrew for TFANA and this season she returns with her star Maggie Siff for Much Ado About Nothing, an appropriate, complicated companion piece....
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Frame Your Mind to Mirth and Merriment
STRATFORD, ON—I’ve never seen a Taming of the Shrew that is quite so, well, shrewish. Deborah Hay, playing Katherina, rages around the stage, her hair mushrooming in all sorts of directions, her...
View ArticleThe Brief Sun Flames the Ice
The set, designed by Riccardo Hernandez, is extraordinary. Snow falls throughout, first in large heaps and then intermittently, its color reflected in the large white arches and pale furniture; the...
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