Tag: St-Lawrence Shakespeare Festival 2018

The Taming of the Shrew: a delightful reimagining of Shakespeare by an exceptional director!

The Taming of the Shrew: a delightful reimagining of Shakespeare by an exceptional director!

 

 

The Taming of the Shrew, Photo. Helen Mott, Cast: Rose Napoli (Kate), James Mac (Petruchio)

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.)

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