Taming Of The Shrew

[dreamer]

Kate in Australia

[isis]

Such great pic, thanks Dreamer !!!!

[Hepburner]

Wow-ness.

For some reason I kind of never really thought about this.
That makes little sense. Speak clearly Shane.

...What I mean is - though I had read about this many times, it never really sunk into my rather ... foggy... mind that Kate did The Taming of The Shrew.
I can't, to be honest, imagine it that well.

But then I always think of Elizabeth and Richard doing it...
To me Elizabeth really owns this role.

Damn you Miss Elizabeth Taylor!
I had such high hopes of some day wowing the film or theater industry's with my arresting portrayal of Katharina...

[martha]

my opinion is that you could do rather better .. portray rather more 'notes' in the performance, than the stunningly lovely but not dramatically gifted elizabeth taylor. shrill? yes. actor capable of giving a layered, nuanced performance? uh ... not for me. i've talked about martha in 'who's afraid of virginia woolf" (movie version) before ... not a fan of that but rather other performances of martha i've seen. but then i haven't joined a liz taylor board here.

taylor does electrify a room when she's in it. the only time i was anywhere in her proximity was during my undergraduate years at, (cough) harvard she one year was presented the hasty pudding club's woman of the year (kate won it one year and not when i was around, darn them, and they misspelled her name on the proclamation! as we all know .. it was posted in one of these threads here .. that misspelled proclamation ...) ... i was in the then little hasty pudding theatre (a club known for doing drag, ... i'm not kidding ..) back to liz: in cambridge one morning, when you had to just know to show up .. and i presented myself for a free ticket to the event. [much as the events for the opening of kate's papers at the ny public library have been announced .. they're free but limited tickets .. so you just have to e there] ... i sat down front on an aisle.. .about 20 minutes later after the crowd settled down, the guys up front announced that they would be bestowing the hasty pudding 'woman of the year honor' .. to .. elizabeth taylor. and she came down the aisle right by me .. and [1] she is tiny tiny tiny (well, certainly was decades ago) and [2] she radiates charm and presence. it was memorable.

with all of that -- i'd rather see kate do taming of shrew. i really would.

[Hepburner]

Ahh yes. Fair enough I suppose.

I definitely think Kate's Katharina would be a sight to behold.
The problem I think I have, despite her OBVIOUS acting ability (she is after all, my favorite screen actress...), is that I just CANNOT imagine her being that kind of woman.
The shrew that is.

I feel like Kate just wouldn't behave like that. Certainly, some of the internal motives Kate would possibly share. But I just don't think she would be that woman.
Whereas Liz would I think.

On the other side of this, I love Elizabeth, so maybe thats why I like her in that role.
I also loved Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf too, and Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer and Cleopatra (the few times I've found the time to tackle it).