SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW WITH MORGAN FREEMAN

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 @ 6:00PM

Freeman first discovered Shakespeare in school in Mississippi. He went on to play the hero of this play – Petruchio – in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production in New York, set in the Wild West. Freeman notes this play has set the template for all of the battle-of-the-sexes comedies that have followed; many a romantic comedy has The Taming of the Shrew running through its veins.

It’s a love story between two unlikely characters. The Shrew is Katherine, a woman who is bitter, viperish, wild – or simply not prepared to accept the conventions of her time – and thus “unmarriageable.” Petruchio is after a wife, and the wealthier the better.

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