Taming of the Shrew, The

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1995 production of The Taming of the Shrew. Directed by Gale Edwards with Josie Lawrence as Katherine and Michael Siberry as Petruchio.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2 May 1995
Duration: 152 mins

General: "Russell Craig’s stage settings and Marie-Jeanne Lecca’s spectacularly bizarre costumes locate the production deep in the realms of a modernish dream-land. Craig fashions this world as a cluster of mobile two-tier towers in heliotrope and purple. From then, the wild mix of fashion styles and a succession of camp surprises characterise the action." Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard 24 April 1995.
History: Press night 21 April 1995
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: Holland, Peter Shakespeare Survey 49 (1996), pp 235-67 espec. 255-57.

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

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