Taming of the Shrew: A Role Reversal

Presented By
Heart of America Shakespeare Festival

“If I be waspish,” the tempestuous Katherine says early in Act 2 of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, “best beware my sting.”

The overall tone is light and comic, but one of the Bard’s earliest comedies takes a more serious tone in exploring such larger social issues as the proper relation of the sexes in marriage. The latest installment of the Library’s popular Script-in-Hand series features the
Kansas City’s Heart of America Shakespeare Festival reversing the gender of all the characters, casting those themes in a different context. Katherine becomes a male, Kit. Petruchio is a female, Petruchia. Per Shakespeare’s intent, it provokes both laughs and thought.

The event is part of the McMeel Family Shakespeare Series in collaboration with the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival.
This event is co-sponsored by: McMeel Family Shakespeare Series
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Taming of the Shrew: A Role Reversal

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