Having directed a couple of shows in the Sam Wanamaker, hip director Jude Christian makes the leap to the main Globe theatre for the first time as she tackles a typically thorny play; Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’. Despite – or perhaps because of – the almost undeniable misogyny in the way Petruchio sets about ‘taming’ the truculent Katherine, the play remains impressively popular as a creative challenge to directors, who tend to find inventive ways to either mitigate its misogyny or use it to make audiences feel uncomfortable. There’s not much of a clue as to the aesthetic, though the words ‘absurd carnival’ are bandied around in the official description.
The Taming of the Shrew
Time Out says
Jude Christiansen directs Shakespeare‘s perennially problematic battle of the sexes clash
Details
- Address:
- Shakespeare's Globe
- 21
- New Globe Walk
- Bankside
- London
- SE1 9DT
- Contact:
- View Website
- Transport:
- Tube: Blackfriars/Mansion House/London Bridge
- Price:
- £5-£75
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