Edward Hall directs Propeller, an all-male company, in two comedies full of mistaken identity, and transformation. In The Taming of The Shrew a man playing a boy dresses up as a girl which confuses Christopher Sly. Whilst in Twelfth Night, a man plays a girl disguised as a boy which confuses everybody.
What begins as a trick played on an unwitting drunk at a party in Padua, ends in the bittersweet confusion on the island of Illyria. Over the course of the two plays, Shakespeare takes us on a journey that constantly reminds us that the opposite is always true.
TOUR DATES
2006
2 - 11 November
The Taming of The Shrew
The RSC's Complete Works Festival
The Courtyard Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
2007
The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night
5 January – 17 February
Old Vic Theatre, London
0870 060 6628
24 February – 4 March
His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth, Australia
7 – 10 March
Hong Kong Academy For Performing Arts
Lyric Theatre
17 March – 1 April
Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
10 - 14 April
Cambridge Arts Theatre
01223 503333
17 – 21 April
The Lowry, Salford
0870 787 5780
24 – 28 April
The Lighthouse, Poole
01202 685222
1 – 5 May
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
01483 440000
8 – 12 May
Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
01242 572573
15 – 19 May
Oxford Playhouse
01865 305305
23 – 27 May
Teatro Grassi, Milano
2 – 3 June
The Globe Theatre, Neuss, Germany
A co-production with the Old Vic
The Taming of The Shrew was presented as part of the RSC Complete Works Festival 2006
The Taming of The Shrew and Twelfth Night is sponsored by Coutts & Co
The Watermill Theatre production of The Taming of the Shrew was originally sponsored by Horsey Lightly Fynn
Directed by Edward Hall
Designed by Michael Pavelka
Lighting by Mark Howland and Ben Ormerod