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What is it about William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” that attracts progressive, feminist directors who hope to tame its inherently violent sexism and then spend their entire show fighting against a play, a comedy, that did not demand a new production in the first place? I, for one, do not know.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater learned its lesson years ago with a famously epic fail. But the latest disaster in the “Shrew” Chicago oeuvre is Court Theatre’s ill-conceived new staging, a joyless, weird, creepy, barely comprehensible and thoroughly unpleasant theatrical experience that lost a good portion of its head-scratching audience at intermission on Sunday night and surely alienated many of the rest who stayed.

The stated intent here

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