The Taming of the Shrew

Synopsis

Two wealthy sisters in Padua must be married off. The modest, demure Bianca has no shortage of suitors, but who on earth will take the wild, ungovernable, ?shrewish' Katherina? Perhaps the gold-digging Petruchio, as maddeningly strong willed and perverse as Katherina herself, will be equal to the task of bullying her to the altar. Shakespeare's outrageous comedy introduces one of the theatre's great screwball double-acts, a couple hellbent on confusing and outwitting each other right up to its controversial conclusion.

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USER: Whatsonstage.com (81.107.228.50) - 21 July 2003:

An excellent cast and wonderful production of this contraversial play. This is RSC at its best. The humour and timing make this a very enjoyable production and the implications that her "taming" benefits both is well made. The difficulty of Sly is overcome by cutting the whole part out - with no discernable detriment to the production, and the textual difficulty of Tranio/Hortensio (as Tranio appears to adopt Hortensio's character) is largely unnoticed in performance. Lively and funny - and the fact that the cast seem to enjoy is almost as much as the audience makes for a most enjoyable evening - see it if you can....

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