Charles Isherwood reviews 5 plays. He gives kudos to the comedies "Although it can often be trying in less experienced hands, Shakespearean comedy tends to flourish at Stratford, in part because it is often entrusted to veterans like Mr. Dow and Mr. Davies." The Winter's Tale: "Only the fine playing ...
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Kiss Me, Kate
13 Reviews http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/OnStage/productions.aspx?id=6048New York Times, Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
Charles Isherwood The New York Times 11/07/10 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/theater/11stratford.html?scp=1&sq=stratford&st=cseAll this has happened before, but this time is the best
Pat Donnelly The Gazette 07/07/10 http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/this+happened+before+this+time+best/3230554/story.htmlAs Fred Graham, the egotistical manager of a second rate theatre company stuck in Baltimore, Juan Chioran brings his songs to full vocal and theatrical life. As does Chilina Kennedy, who plays the sexy chorus girl, Lois Lane... Her rendition of Always True to You in My Fashion is a ...
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Christopher Hoile, Stage Door 28/06/10 http://www.stage-door.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1239&Itemid=123"..with great performances from Chioran, Lund and Kennedy, with direction as smart as it fun and with one of the best scores of any musical, Stratford’s “Kiss Me, Kate” is one summer musical you won’t want to miss."
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Lawrence B. Johnson The Detroit News 28/06/10 http://detnews.com/article/20100611/ENT01/6110340/-Kiss-Me--Kate--relies-on-bare-essentials#ixzz0rcPV8muZ'Doyle has concocted a thoroughly funny spin on this classic musical that is itself a spin on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."...and certainly the bawdiness of this production would have seemed right at home on the Elizabethan stage.'
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Gary Smith Gary Smith The Hamilton Spectator 28/06/10 http://www.thespec.com/article/788890Smith desribes the show as "a rough, British pantomime of a show, replete with silly visual gags and dropped-in jokes...Kiss Me Kate isn't vaudevillian musical theatre as Doyle suggests. It's a sophisticated musical with real heart and soul. Too bad these are the very qualities that have been pummelled out ...
Read MoreStart to finish, this is an intoxicating show
Robert Cushman National Post 20/06/10 http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Start+finish+this+intoxicating+show/3174692/story.html"Kennedy is a tornado dancer, a dynamite singer with a voice as true as powerful, and a lithe and delectable looker. She's also an actress, able to take a role to its limits." He loved the show.
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Jamie Portman Canwest News Service 11/06/10 http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/Stratford+review+Kiss+Kate/3138000/story.html"The loveliest, purest moments of this misconceived revival come from Steve Ross and Cliff Saunders as two comic gangsters. Their rendition of Brush Up Your Shakespeare shines brightly amidst the dross."
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Laura Cudworth The Beacon Herald 10/06/10 http://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2615631"Chioran's Fred is more than an egomaniacal buffoon. He attempts dignity at all cost and fails just often enough. And what a lovely voice. Seeing his bad-musical Petruchio makes me want to see what his Shakespearean Petruchio would look like. I suspect terrific."
Read MoreInventive and funny, but all over the map
J. Kelly Nestruck The Globe and Mail 10/06/10 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/theatre/inventive-and-funny-but-all-over-the-map/article1598282/?cmpid=rss1&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGlobeAndMail-Entertainment+(The+Globe+and+Mail+-+Arts+News)Nestruck's full review: "It moves from dreamy and romantic to spare and serious to farcical and over the top – and that’s just in the first few scenes." 3.5/4 Stars
Read MoreA wacky, over-the-top theatrical pastiche
Robert Reid The Record 09/06/10 http://news.therecord.com/arts/article/725376"Doyle makes a perplexing festival debut with a production that, despite its silly excesses, had the audience eating out of its hand...Chilina Kennedy carves another notch in her belt as a rising festival star."
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