The Royal Shakespeare Company’s electric new London season continues with tonight’s opening of the “landmark” (Evening Standard) gender-flipped production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
Shakespeare’s fierce, energetic comedy of gender and materialism is turned on its head to offer a fresh perspective on its portrayal of hierarchy and power. London-based director Justin Audibert (Artistic Director of the Unicorn Theatre) directs this provocative and wildly entertaining production, in which 1590s society is reimagined as a matriarchy.
With traditionally powerful male roles now played by women as women (and vice versa), costumes play a prominent role in demonstrating the reversed status of men and women. Justin Audibert explains how the costumes - designed by Hannah Clark - “take up more space. They’re more elaborate…a sign of their status and power”, whereas men have a “more delicate and less extravagant form of costuming.”
We’ve teamed up with the RSC to give away 25 pairs of tickets to The Taming of the Shrew at the Barbican.
For more information and to book tickets for the RSC London Season, visit barbican.org.uk. Tickets are available from £10*.
To enter, log in or register below and fill out the form with your details.
Terms & Conditions: *£3 booking fee per online transaction, £4 by phone, no fee when tickets are booked in person. Promotion closes at 23:59 on 17 November 2019. There are 25 prizes of a pair of tickets to a performance of The Taming of the Shrew at the Barbican Theatre. Tickets are valid for Monday-Friday evening performances until 20 December 2019 only, subject to availability. The winners will be the first 25 entries selected at random after the closing date and will be contacted by 22 November 2019. The tickets are non-transferable and there is no cash alternative. Only one online entry per person. Usual promotion rules apply, see www.standard.co.uk/rules. For further information, please write to Customer Care, Evening Standard Limited, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London, W8 5EE. Promoter: RSC.
Image credit: Photo by Ikin Yum © RSC.
