“The Taming of the Shrew”

I try to make sure that my wife sees Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew every few years, at a minimum.  One can never get too much of it.

Back on 3 July, we also saw Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, an updated adaptation of Shrew, in San Diego’s Globe Theater.

The Taming of the Shrew isn’t only inspirational, and excellent training for uppity women.

It’s also uproariously funny.

Some, though, aren’t amused.

But we were, tonight.  The Utah Shakespeare Festival delivered a broad but wonderful production of the play, with Brian Vaughn (one of the Festival’s two artistic directors, always a crowd favorite) playing Petruchio and Melissa Pfundstein (Brian Vaughn’s wife, herself a very popular veteran performer here) playing Katherine.

The audience was large and, from the sound of things, hugely entertained.

Don’t get upset about The Taming of the Shrew.

It’s a joke.

Posted from Cedar City, Utah