Now, you listen here, hombre. You and me, we done rode through all that "talk like a pirate" bosh, but all that balled-up palaver didn't hold a candle to talkin' like a cowboy. And you might think such frontier lingo wouldn't rightly fit into the flannel-mouthed Elizabethan purty-talk of one Wm. Shakespeare, but that just goes to show you ain't no feller to ride down the river with, so you just hobble your lip. Harlequin buckaroo Scot Whitney done nailed that to the counter. His production of The Taming of the Shrew cuts a swell, and that's the real Simon Pure.

The time: the early 1880s. The place: Tombstone, Arizona. Cue the Ennio Morricone sting. Harlequin's Shrew earns laughs from its opening movie trailer.

Rea dmy full review here.

[Harlequin Productions, The Taming of the Shrew, through Oct. 30, 8 p.m. Thursday - Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, $12-$35, 202 Fourth Ave. E, Olympia, 360.786.0151]