The Taming of the Shrew

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Opened 15 January 2004, closed 6 March 2004 at the Queen's Theatre in London

The Royal Shakespeare Company present Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew in a seven week repertory season (John Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed is performed on Wednesdays and Saturdays).

The Taming of the Shrew is perhaps the most famous play ever written about the battle of the sexes.

Petruchio arrives in Padua looking for a wife, a rich one. The wealthy Baptista has a daughter, Kate, whom he wants to get off his hands, but she has a reputation as a shrew with a scolding tongue and a fierce temper. Petruchio also has a reputation, as a wild boy.

Will he take Kate on? Who will tame who?...

"Gregory Doran's groundbreaking Shakespeare moved me to tears" The Guardian