"Practice Kate from Shrew, " she said, and the Miranda-shaped 
constellation was replaced by a dark-haired woman with green, feline eyes, 
dressed in some costume designer's concept of what a rich woman in the Italian 
Renaissance would be likely to wear. Miranda had large bunny eyes while Kate 
had cat eyes, and cat eyes were used differently from bunny eyes, especially 
when delivering a slashing witticism. Carl Hollywood, the company's founder and 
dramaturge, who'd been sitting in passively on her Shrews, had 
suggested that she
needed more work in this area. Not many payers enjoyed Shakespeare or even knew 
who he was, but the ones who did tended to be very high on the income scale and 
worth catering to. Usually this kind of argument had no effect on Miranda, but 
she'd been finding that some of these (rich sexist snob asshole) gentlemen were 
remarkably good ractors. And any professional could tell you that it was a rare 
pleasure to ract with a payer who knew what he was doing.