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Shakespeare in good company Dropping in on Packer's method

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19960922
Author:Ed Siegel, Globe Staff

It happens so often it has almost become a cliche. A Shakespeare-phobe leaves a production of Shakespeare & Company at Edith Wharton's Lenox mansion, The Mount, saying, "I really enjoyed that. I've never been able to follow the words so easily."

There's nothing cliched, though, about clean, crisp Shakespeare. And there's nothing cliched about the charismatic founder and artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, Tina Packer, who has opened what might be called a second theater front closer to Boston. Her superb, illuminative take on "Measure for Measure" is playing at the Orpheum Theatre in ...

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