Taming of the Shrew, The
- Synopsis
- A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of The Taming of the Shrew. Directed by Jonathan Miller with Brian Cox as Petruchio and Fiona Shaw as Katherina.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 9 Sep 1987
- Duration
- 160 mins
Credits
- Director
- Jonathan Miller
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Stephen Oliver
- Production Design
- Stefanos Lazaridis
- Cast
Additional Details
- Theatre
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre
- Theatre company
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Historical period
- Renaissance Italy
- Plays
- Taming of the Shrew, The
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
- Related items
- Taming of the Shrew, The
Notes
- General
- Jonathan Miller had previously directed the play for television as part of the BBC Television Shakespeare series in 1980 with John Cleese as Petruchio and Sarah Badel as Katherina.
- History
- Press night 8 September 1987. The production transferred to the Barbican.
- Stills
- Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
- Reviews
- Holderness, Graham. ‘The Albatross and the Swan: Two Productions at Stratford’. New Theatre Quarterly 4 (1988), pp 152-58.
[Compares Jonathan Miller’s The Taming of the Shrew at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and Deborah Warner’s Titus Andronicus at the Swan, arguing that the latter heightens the sense of a "contradictory relationship" between the Royal Shakespeare Company’s two "classical" houses in Stratford.]
Production Company
- Name
Royal Shakespeare Company
- Web
- https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
- Address
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB
Archive
- Name
Shakespeare Birthplace Collections
- collections@shakespeare.org.uk
- Web
- https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/collections/ External site opens in new window
- Address
- Shakespeare Centre
Henley Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
CV37 6QW
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Taming of the Shrew, The". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av38146 (Accessed 10 Oct 2024)