Taming of the Shrew, The

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2003 production of The Taming of the Shrew. Directed by Gregory Doran with Jasper Britton as Petruchio and Alexandra Gilbreath as Katherine. The production was in repertoire with John Fletcher’s comic sequel The Tamer Tamed, also directed by Gregory Doran.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2003
Duration: 165 (inc. 20 interval)

Notes: Jasper Britton’s annotated script is available in the Shakespeare Institute Library.
History: First performance 31 March 2003. It played in repertoire until 8 November 2003 and then went on to be performed from 13 December 2003-4 January 2004 at the Kennedy Centre, Washington, DC.
Reviews: Gilbert, Miriam. ‘Performance as Deflection’ in
Hodgdon, Barbara and Worthen, W.B., Companion to Shakespeare and Performance. (Oxford and Malden: Blackwell, 2005) pp 319-34.
[Examines Royal Shakespeare Company productions of TheTaming of the Shrew since 1960 to isolate strategies--including ‘elaborate programme notes, the expansion and even rewriting of the Induction, and striking interpretations by individual actors’. ‘Focuses on Richard McCabe’s Tranio in Bill Alexander’s production and Jasper Britton’s Petruchio in Gregory Doran’s production].

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