Review Excerpts
“‘APT TAMES ‘THE SHREW’ INTO NON-SEXIST THEATER’…True, Randall Duk Kim as Petruchio, the tamer, and Alexandra Mitchell as Katherine, the shrew, occasionally steal the show with their verbal firestorms and repartee….”
—Jacob Stockinger, THE CAPITAL TIMES (7/23/1984)
“‘‘SHREW’ AN ABSOLUTE JOY TO WATCH’…Alexandra Mitchell as Kate and Randall Duk Kim as Petruchio drew highest kudos….Ms. Mitchell and Kim jab and parry like heavyweight champions, never giving ground in this lively episode of wits. Petruchio slowly softens Kate by mirroring her own personality, always in the sincerest name of ‘perfect love.’…”
—Dennis Mullins, WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL (7/23/1984)
“‘TAMING OF THE SHREW: SEXUAL HEALING’…Kim’s strategy as Petruchio—the key to the play’s success—is balancing the character’s violence with a hearty bonhomie that makes us like him in his worst excesses. His face wreathed in smiles, Kim charms us with Petruchio’s confidential asides, then surges back into action, bellowing curses in a hoarse, husky voice that turns words into cannonballs. His artistry knits together the paradoxical elements of his character’s nature: the love of rowdy iconoclasm that’[s still compatible with a drive toward order….”
—James Dalglish, ISTHMUS (8/10/1984)
