Taming of the Shrew, The

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of The Taming of the Shrew. Directed by Jonathan Miller with Brian Cox as Petruchio and Fiona Shaw as Katherina.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 9 Sep 1987
Duration: 160 mins

General: Jonathan Miller had previously directed the play for television as part of the BBC Television Shakespeare series in 1980 with John Cleese as Petruchio and Sarah Badel as Katherina.
History: Press night 8 September 1987. The production transferred to the Barbican.
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: Holderness, Graham. ‘The Albatross and the Swan: Two Productions at Stratford’. New Theatre Quarterly 4 (1988), pp 152-58.
[Compares Jonathan Miller’s The Taming of the Shrew at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and Deborah Warner’s Titus Andronicus at the Swan, arguing that the latter heightens the sense of a "contradictory relationship" between the Royal Shakespeare Company’s two "classical" houses in Stratford.]

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
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Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
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Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
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