SUMMER 1999
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| Karen E. Ruch | Production Stage Manager | |||||||||||||
| Lynne Porter | Production Designer | |||||||||||||
| Karen Gasser | Lighting Designer, Assistant Stage Manager |
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| Ron P. Zappile | Technical Director | |||||||||||||
| Ted Alexander | Production Assistant | |||||||||||||
| Jesse Gutierrez | Production Assistant | |||||||||||||
| Jenny Beth Miller | Head Costumer | |||||||||||||
CASTKelly King |
Jeff Meglio | Sound Consultant | ||||||||||||
| Ben Coleman | Lighting Assistant | |||||||||||||
| Martha Griffin Wilson | Properties Mistress | |||||||||||||
| Dan Burke | Fight Choreographer | |||||||||||||
| Louis Lynch | Musical Consultant | |||||||||||||
| James Douglas Cramer | Dramaturg | |||||||||||||
| ...more credits below | ||||||||||||||
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| Rob Smith | HSF Logo/Poster & Program Design | |||||||||||||
| Michelle Jones | Program | |||||||||||||
| Helena Bartash | Head Stitcher | |||||||||||||
| It is the story of the courtship, marriage and honeymoon of the most cantankerous pair of lovers in the history of theatre. We watch Kate and Petruchio and wonder which one will break the other first. The resultant "taming" is less a harnessing than it is a mutual understanding. If you find their formula for domestic harmony unsatisfactory, Petruchio has an answer for you. "If she be please, what's that to you."
This play has fallen out of favor with many modern theatre-goers because of its seeming misoginistic stance; however, it is, at heart, a comedy about two headstrong individuals. HSF looked to the old "I Love Lucy" TV series for inspiration in mounting this production of Shrew. The set was black and white and so were the actors, who played out the entire story on a Giant 50's style TV test pattern. It was our hope that this approach would help to lighten the mood of a play that had become encumbered with the weight of modern literal (and frankly, humorless) interpretations. |
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