Last Friday's Discussion

ANGELA: It's a huge male domination fantasy.
ETHAN: Agreed, just look at the Induction, in which the play of "the taming of the shrew" is presented as an entertainment for a drunken tinker who got thrown out of a tavern by the mistress of the place.
DR. WELLER: Background, blah, blah, blah.
HUNTER: I think that what happens is that Petruchio acts terrible until a point at which Katherina, seeing how stupid he is being, realizes that she is being stupid too and changes her tune.
DR. WELLER: Good theory, and the single most popular theory in the academic discussion of the play, but I don't believe it.

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DR. WELLER: On second thought, maybe I do believe it.
--Angela's statement implies (I think) that the play is not realistic, that people don't really interact as shown in the play.
--Hunter's statement implies (I think) that it the play is realistic, and that having to deal with stupidity can be a look in the mirror that teaches you to stop being stupid.
--This leads me to the general question, which I want you to ask about all of Shakespeare's characters: "What makes psychological sense?" Therefore it is time for a game of IN OTHER WORDS, focusing on the climax of the play, Act 4, Scene 5, lines 1 - 23. Teams don't have to have adopt in particular theory about the scene; they just have to try to express the truth of each character at that moment.
-- As an example of the game, I need two mimes for Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2, lines 62-67
--For the game itself, teams of four: 1 reader, who reads Shakespeare's words and the OTHER WORDS for each character, included supplied words for Hortensio, and 3 mimes, one each for Katherina, Petruchio, and Hortensio. The team as a whole preps the OTHER WORDS. There will be five teams; the rest will be judges. The judges should discuss among themselves how they would do the scene. They should also come up with a scoring system to gauge 1) truth and 2) laughable-ness.