Details

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.

Cast/Performers

Jasper Britton, Alexandra Gilbreath, Tom Anderson, Paul Chahidi, Esther Ruth Eliot, Ian Gelder, Christopher Godwin, Christopher Harvey, Daniel Hawksford, Rory Kinnear, John Lightbody, Oliver Maltman, Eve Myles, Bill Nash, Keith Osborn, David Pearl, Nathan Rimell, Nicolas Tennant, Simon Trinder, Beth Vyse

Creatives/Company

Author: Shakespeare
Producer(s): Bill Kenwright, Thelma Holt
Company: Royal Shakespeare Company
Director(s): Gregory Doran, Terry King (fight)
Design: Stephen Brimson Lewis
Lighting: Tim Mitchell
Music: Paul Englishby
Sound: Martin Slavin
Choreographer: Michael Ashcroft