Since Yellow Springs' Antioch Players collect Shakespeare's plays as hungrily as stamp collectors gobble up first day covers, "The Taming of the Shrew" is a necessary item in the album. Kate’s taming, done up skillfully, is on display through Sunday this week at the outdoor theater. The comedy begins the third annual Shakespeare Under-the-Stars festival for the group which intends to do all the plays, good and bad, of Shakespeare by summer's end in 1956. Six of them will follow the Shrew this year. For their first offering this season, the players have chosen to present the devices used by Petruchio, who has come to marry wealthily in Padua, to physically and verbally beat a shrewish wife with a temper into a submissive, tempered woman...

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