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A Christmas Carol by Dickens, adapt by J Kimbell / K Powers

Nov 12, 2010   //   by Kate Powers   //   Productions

Overview

In September 2006, Jon Kimbell approached me about co-directing A Christmas Carol with him at North Shore Music Theater this season.

North Shore has been producing Carol for the past 18 seasons, and Jon felt that the production had gotten both a bit stale and a bit adrift from …

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The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Nov 6, 2010   //   by Kate Powers   //   Productions


“It’s down to me, yes it is
The way she does just what she’s told
Down to me, the change has come
She’s under my thumb
Ah, ah, say it’s alright.”

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“I will be kind, won’t be so cruel,
I will be sweet, I will be true,
Because of …

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You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate,
And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst;
But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,
Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate,
For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate,
Take this of me, Kate of my consolation…
--The Taming of the Shrew, Act II, scene i