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

Lloyd Hutchinson (Petruchio), Tanya Ronder (Katherina), Joseph Alessi, John Branwell, Nick Cavaliere, Peter Collins, Guy Hargreaves, Robert Pickavance, Phoebe Soteriades, Susan Twist, Toby Sedgwick, Simon Roberts, David Williams, Marc Parry, Orla Cottingham

Creatives/Company

Author: Shakespeare
Company: Royal Exchange Theatre
Director: Helena Kaut-Howson
Design: Johanna Bryant
Choreographer: Toby Sedgwick
Lighting: Jason Taylor
Sound: Steve Brown
Music: Akintayo Akinbode