The Taming of the Shrew: a delightful reimagining of Shakespeare by an exceptional director!
Director Andrea Donaldson has taken a cast of mixed talents and various levels of experience, and transformed what might have been an uneven ensemble into a perfectly coherent orchestration of immense enjoyment. The Taming of the Shrew has been reinterpreted into many different forms of performance by a multitude of theatre groups from vastly different cultures (the American musical Kiss Me Kate or the anti-colonial text by Martinican Daniel Boukman who sets his version in post -revolutionary Algeria as a theatrical intertext – La véridique histoire de Hourya– , critiquing the failure of the revolution to liberate Muslim women who, in the author’s mind, kept their symbol of subservience by continuing to wear the veil.) …