A Wife in Padua
OR vitality, high spirits and a fine rumbustiousness, I give you the New Zealand Players’ production of The Taming of the Shrew. The Players were fortunate in having Barbara Jefford and Keith Michell to play again the parts in which they were so successful at Stratford last year. Richard Campion has made a most successful radio adaptation, which wisely omits the sly episodes and concentrates on the central
plot. The music by Brian Bell is admirable. scored to take in the credits at the beginning and the end, in the manner of a sophisticated film. Padua is behind the action most of the time and if some-| times a trifle noisy, is remarkably authentic in flavour with street vendors yokels and nobles chattering away in what sounded remarkably like Italian Barbara Jefford is a splendidly mettlesome fiery Shrew. the most recalcitrant and vituperative of unbroken fillies, and _ Keith Michell» handsomely accompanies her with his fine voice and boisterous attack. All the Players were in good voice, better, in fact, than I have ever heard them. And what an excellent comedy it is! Women may fee] that the closing scene is a piece of special pleading for male supremacy, but this is taking it too seriously» I recommend that husbands and wives listen to it together, marking down the points for each sex. It comes out just about all square.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 823, 6 May 1955, Page 10
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233A Wife in Padua New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 823, 6 May 1955, Page 10
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