The Taming of the Shrew | Synopsis | Royal Shakespeare Company

[@rainbowthelolcat]

This story just proves how society changed. A patriarchy to a matriarchy. Just choose one MFs.

[@Katenessed]

A little mention of the creative changes to the original version at the outset would seem a reasonable courtesy....

[@mikej5366]

The Taming of the Dude. 🙄

[@elizabethwilson6872]

That’s genuinely funny. And I’m with you on the eye roll. Why call a play Shakespeare when it’s just not? Just call it the Taming of the Dude and show it in the Swan.

[@mikej5366]

Elizabeth Wilson Rewriting Shakespeare to fit their political narrative is pathetic. Let his words stand or don’t call it a Shakespearean play.

[@elizabethwilson6872]

T J What’s really sad is they’re aggressively hitting the schools with this garbage. The kids just think it’s Shakespeare.

[@Tia-Marie]

Dudes playing "traditionally female roles" is so untraditional to theatre XD www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/shakespeare-and-gender-the-womans-part

[@Tia-Marie]

I keep telling "the wife," it would be cheaper to move to Stratford than to buy tickets and travel for all the shows I want to see performed there. This is an incredible reworking, brilliant and I bet your stage manager is having a BLAST on this one.

[@gabrielmajack9837]

Woke culture rewriting Shakespeare.. Just the arrogance.

[@treyderringer611]

Right. And while we’re at it, Big Ben should be digital. This is simply tasteless

[@mikej5366]

agreed

[@elizabethwilson6872]

Or Big Gwen! Let’s just destroy our cultural heritage altogether.

[@bushfireblond]

Trey - feel you have no psychological language. An undifferentiated self thinks everyone thinks the same, if they don’t they SHOULD. Limited

[@michaelreifabc123]

Thanks

[@michaelnixon525]

You don't have to be incredibly silly to work here - but it helps. How come ( nearly) everyone else's name is changed to accommodate the change of gender - Gremia, Bianco, Petruchia , etc but not Katherine? Good morrow, Kate, for that's your name, I hear'- ' Good morrow, Kevin, for that's your name, I hear.

[@elizabethwilson6872]

This isn’t the story AT ALL. This is not Shakespeare.

[@mariadomingo482]

You are absolutely right; my favourite play turned to rubbish.

[@elizabethwilson6872]

D Jameson they shouldn’t be allowed to call it Shakespeare

[@mariadomingo482]

Elizabeth Wilson if the RSC doesn’t revere his words and plays, who will? I’m so utterly disgusted/disappointed

[@Tia-Marie]

Shakespeare didn't revere words, he pushed very vulgar and salty prose.

[@mariadomingo482]

Grunkle Tiro is mansplaining 🙄

[@carlatate7678]

Absurd.

[@michaelnixon525]

God help us ! Can't be worse ?? Than the Shrew they did a few years ago ( with Stephen Boxer) where they decided to do this comedy as a study of domestic violence with Petruchio as a psychopath and a recurring theme of men putting their heads up women's skirts and Katherine offering Gremio her body in return for some food because she as being starved by her new husband. Who pays these people? And how do they get these jobs?