Originally published on September 18, 2018 on the Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast (“EPISODE 614. TAMING SHAKESPEARE’S “SHREW””)
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Director Shana Cooper dropped in on the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s Podcast to discuss how she made this troublesome play work in our slightly more enlightened (hopefully) and evolving era. Featuring key commedia influences, a classic battle of the sexes play that’s also a satire of same, being sold on the love story, the importance of clowns, the danger and absurdity of the patriarchy, one virtue of the Christopher Sly scenes, forging unknown and thorny paths, the importance of non-verbal text, radical and revolutionary individuals, and most importantly, finding alternatives to broken systems and masculine ideas of power.
