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unusual facts about The Taming of the Shrew



Boleslaw Barlog

Other plays which he directed there in the immediate post-war period were Romain Rolland's Le Jeu de l'amour et de la mort (1945), Shakespeare's As You Like It (1946) and The Taming of the Shrew (1947), Holm and Abbott's Three Men on a Horse (1946), Gogol's Marriage (1947) and Zuckmayer's Des Teufels General (1948).

Franklyn Seales

Born on the island of St. Vincent, Seales attended Juilliard before appearing in various television productions of Shakespearean plays including Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew where he played the role of Petruchio.

Joel Nash

A night of William Shakespeare at the Metro Arts Theatre where Woodley, having broken his toe the day before, sported a walking stick during his portrayal of Petruchio from The Taming of The Shrew and in-which he did the unspeakable and ad-libbed a final line of having to first tend to his crutch(crotch).

Marina Giordana

After her time at Lancio, Marina has continued her acting career with theatrical work that includes Shakespeare plays such as Love's Labours Lost (Pene d'amore perdute in Italian) and The Taming of the Shrew (La bisbetica domata in Italian), and Under Milk Wood (Sotto il bosco di latte in Italian) by Dylan Thomas.

Mukhtar Auezov

He wrote over twenty plays, and translated such classic works of world and Russian drama as "The Inspector" by Gogol, Othello and The Taming of the Shrew 'by Shakespeare, Aristocrats by Nikolai Pogodin, Spring Love by Konstantin Trenyov, and Officer of the Navy by A. Kron.

Paul Jerricho

Other theatre work includes The Biko Inquest at the Riverside Studios with Albert Finney; Manningham in Gaslight at Salisbury Playhouse; Dionysus in The Bacchae at Bristol Old Vic; Banquo in Macbeth and Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew.

Renée Asherson

She returned to the New Theatre for the 1947–1948 season, appearing in such roles as Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, The Queen in Richard II, and Marya Antonovna in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector.

Simon Scardifield

Simon Scardifield is a British actor and playwright, notable for his appearances in the Propellor production of The Taming of the Shrew (2007) and a radio adaptation of Peter Pan in Scarlet.

Suzanne Flon

Her English-language theatrical roles included Katherine (The Taming of the Shrew) and Rosalind (As You Like It).

Tim Schoch

As a professional actor and singer, Schoch is a trained dramatic and Shakespearean actor appearing on stage in Death of a Salesman (with Eugenia Rawls), Waiting for Godot, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and others.

Will Sharpe

Sharpe spent a year at the RSC and appeared in such plays as The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice and The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes, in which he played a young Isaac Newton.


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Luciana Savignano

She has also interpreted Romeo and Juliet, Buak, Bolero, Swan Lake, The Taming of the Shrew, Cinderella, A la memoire (Mahler), Carmina Burana (Carl Orff) and Orpheus (Stravinsky).

Robert Hays

He had several roles at the world famous Old Globe Theatre, including the leading role as "Petruccio" in a touring production of William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew".

West Australian Ballet

Other major productions included Marcia Haydee's 'The Sleeping Beauty' (marking WAB's debut at The Burswood Theatre and boasting a cast of over 80), 'Gala' (with guest Principal Artists from The Royal Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and The Australian Ballet) and John Cranko's 'The Taming of the Shrew'.

William LeMassena

His first Broadway job was with the Theatre Guild, appearing in the 1939 production of The Taming of the Shrew, starring the Lunts.