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"I think it's very much like Merchant," says [Debbie Patterson]. "Both have a character at the beginning who is out of control and needs to be converted to restore order to society. In Merchant, it's Shylock, and in Shrew, it's [Kate]."
"I hated those words at first," [Michelle Boulet] says. "I thought I wouldn't have to do them straight. I think women are looking at me to give them some sign that I'm not meaning what I'm saying. They can't believe their ears.""When Kate is doing the final soliloquy, you hope to hell the kids (school-aged audiences) are going, 'Not in my life time,'" he says. "You hope that's the message. I'm hoping the boys don't see themselves in what I'm doing."See the full content of this document
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Theatre Company Playing with Spitfire
By Kevin Prokosh
A year ago Shakespeare in the Ruins staged The Merchant of Venice, the most troubling play in the Bard's canon due to its perceived anti-Semitism.Emboldened by Merchant's success, SIR returns to the As...See the full content of this document
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