Fall 2007

 

Directed by Arielle Davidsohn and Corey Eridon

 

Boston University Shakespeare Society presents Taming of the Shrew, directed by Arielle Davidsohn and Corey Eridon.

 

It opens with a father facing a big problem: one of his daughters was hot. The other was just hot tempered. The father banned the younger daughter, Bianca, from marriage until the elder daughter, Kate, found a husband. There were not many volunteers. After years of sexual frustration, Bianca's suitors hatched a plan. They found someone just crazy enough to give Kate a chance. Meanwhile, the suitors disguise themselves as tutors to win Bianca's love. But she already has a man in mind: amorous Lucentio. Lucentio disguises himself as the tutor Cambio, and sets his servant Tranio loose in Padua disguised in his clothes. Meanwhile, Hortensio fumbles as he tries to win Bianca's love by disguising himself as the musically inept flute tutor Lutio. In this mess of confused identities, misogyny, and the battle for supremacy in the battle of the sexes, hilarity is bound to ensue.