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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. An exhilarating retelling of Shakespeares's dark comedy, where social absurdities are turned on their head, to glorious comic effect. In this version, the men are to be tamed and the women do the taming... As part of a month long festival at the Arts investigating evolving relations between minority groups and the theatre - with a focus on gender, race and disability - this unique production sees the main characters switch sex, in a world where the women hold the power and the men are 'advantageously wed'. A hilariously disorienting exploration that breathes new life into to this darkest of Shakespearean comedies.

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Author: Shakespeare