Kate Kellaway

Kate Kellaway (born 1957) is an English journalist and literary critic who writes for The Observer.

Quotes

 * Fiona Shaw, in Jonathan Miller's production, is the best shrew I have seen. She starts off in a mustard yellow dress with a mustard sharp tongue and suitably pointed features screwed up into a vexed expression. She is given to blood-curdling yells, intimidating her family, hand-cuffing her sister and chopping bits off her ginger plait when particularly aggravated. She is a pain to behold and to hear.
 * "The Taming of the Shrew", Literary Review 115 (January 1988).
 * A review of a Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of the play performed in Stratford-upon-Avon.


 * I used to joke about having a "bee in my Barnet," now I am more likely to bring news about bees in Barnet.
 * "Previous convictions", Prospect (19 October 1998).
 * On moving from Hackney to Barnet; much of the London Borough of Barnet is within the Green Belt.

I suspect the younger members of the audience weren't half as troubled as I was.
 * Rufus Norris's ambitious production is not about safety and is not for the faint-hearted. He is more interested in the darker, distressing aspects of fairytale than in cheap Christmas gags. As the story unfolds, it becomes more gruesome, involving a horrifying ogre (congratulations to Nicholas Beveney's hairy monster) and a magnificent ogress (Daniel Cerqueira) who becomes, in this version, Sleeping Beauty's mother-in-law and tries to eat her own grandchildren.
 * "Lady and the lamp", The Observer (26 December 2004).
 * From a review of seasonal pantomimes, in this case Sleeping Beauty, a Young Vic production staged at The Barbican.