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The Taming
of the Shrew
by
William Shakespeare
An
RSC production
First performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre,
Stratford-upon-Avon on 19th April 1978.
Director: Michael Bogdanov
Assistant Director: David Tucker
Designer: Chris Dyer
Lighting: Chris Ellis
Music and Sound Score: Tony Haynes
Company Voice Work: Cicely Berry
Running time: approx. 180 mins
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Cast
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alphabetical order) |
Conrad Asquith.....A
Haberdasher
Paul Brooke.....Baptista Minola, a wealthy citizen of Padua
Ian Charleson.....Tranio, Lucentio's servant and confidant
Paola Dionisotti.....Katharina, the Shrew, elder daughter of
Baptista
Geoffrey Freshwater.....A Pedant of Mantua
James Griffin.....A Tailor
Allan Hendrick.....Biondello; Lucentio's second servant
Vincentio, a wealthy citizen of Pisa
Anthony Higgins.....Lucentio, a gentleman of Pisa, in
love with Bianca
David Lyon.....Hortensio, a gentleman of Padua, suitor
for the hand of Bianca
Jonathan Pryce.....Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona,
suitor for the hand of Katharina
George Raistrick.....Father of Lucentio
Juliet Stevenson.....Curtis, Petruchio's servant, in
charge of his country house; A Widow, in love with Hortensio
David Suchet.....Grumio, Petruchio's personal lackey
Zoë Wanamaker.....Bianca, the Prize, younger daughter of
Baptista
Paul Webster.....Gremio, a wealthy citizen of Padua,
suitor for the hand of Bianca
Company: Alan Barker; Bill Buffery; Ian Reddington; Ruby
Wax. |
Production |
| Baptista, a
gentleman of Padua, has two daughters. The elder,
Katharina (known as Kate), is considered troublesome, and so has
no suitors. Bianca, her younger sister, is extremely
popular, but prevented by her father from marrying until Kate
has found a husband. The situation seems hopeless until
the arrival of Petruchio, an adventurer, who determines to tame
the apparently shrewish Kate... |
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Notes |
| Zoë had previously
performed as Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew, as part of a
New Shakespeare Company production at the Roundhouse, which
opened on 3rd June 1975. Jeremy Irons had the role of
Petruchio in that production. She had also played Bianca
in Kiss Me Kate, the musical based on Shakespeare's comedy, at
the Oxford Playhouse, in 1974. |
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