Taming of the Shrew, The

Synopsis: A video recording of the Shakespeare Globe Theatre’s 2003 all-female production of the production The Taming of the Shrew, with Kathryn Hunter as Katherina and Janet McTeer as Petruchio. The production was conceived and cast by Barry Kyle and staged by Phyllida Lloyd.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2003

Director

Phyllida Lloyd

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

William Lyons

Production Design

Jenny Tiramani

Costume

Imogen Ross; Jenny Tiramani

Contributor

Barry Kyle

Cast

Notes: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre makes several recordings of a single production, using three fixed cameras, to enable practitioners and researchers to observe how the play has developed during the run.

For a detailed account of the rehearsal process, and comments from actors and theatre practitioners on the production, visit http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/globelink/frameset.htm
History: The production ran 10 August-28 September 2003 (press night 21 August) in the Season of Regime Change.
Reviews: Shand, D.B. ‘Guying the Guys and Girling the Shrew: (Post) Feminist Fun at Shakespeare’s Globe’ in Barbara Hodgdon and W.B. Worthern (eds), Companion to Shakespeare and Performance (Oxford & Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005) 550-63. The essay criticises the production for failing to address the oppressive sexism of the play in favour of a metatheatrical emphasis on the all-female cast.

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