The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

By William Shakespeare

26 Jun 2024 - 26 Oct 2024

London

Shakespeare's Globe

Synopsis

Step inside an absurd carnival for a ‘fantastically, artfully odd’ (The Guardian) production of Shakespeare’s vicious comedy The Taming of the Shrew in the Globe Theatre.

Lucentio is determined to win the beautiful Bianca’s hand in marriage. When her father declares that it will only happen once her older sister Katharina is wedded, the competition to mould the fiercely independent Katharina into obedient wifely material begins.

The front runner is larger-than-life Petruchio. But with Katharina as proud as she is, it’s going to take shocking levels of manipulation to win her as his bride…

Following 2022’s ‘brilliantly provocative’ ★★★★ (The Guardian) Titus Andronicus, Director Jude Christian debuts in the Globe Theatre with this ‘engagingly bonkers’ (Time Out) take on Shakespeare’s challenging early comedy that asks us where we draw the line between entertainment and complicity, reality and the absurd?

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