Probably everyone knows Shakespeare's famous comedy The Taming of the Shrew, with its many plots, characters, turns and surprises, about how men conquer women's hearts and seek harmony with them. The wild Catherine, the adventurous Petruchio, the sweet Bianca and a trio of resourceful suitors. Confusions, disguises, verbal skirmishes.
But who among us knows that in this Shakespearean comedy, one of the sources of humor is also the theme of theater within a theater and that Shakespeare himself actually wrote a play about a traveling troupe of actors who decide to play the entire story of Petruchio and Catherine to an alcoholic.
In our interpretation, this alcoholic launches the magical world of a fictional, desolate traveling troupe of actors, and the theme of theater within a theater becomes another source of entertainment and unexpected events.
Is this author's most controversial comedy just a boisterous theatrical farce or a gender-incorrect text about marriage? Is a woman just a defenseless creature obedient to a man? We can ask whether Petruchio really tamed Catherine, whether her humility is not just one of the metamorphoses of female indomitability, whether taming the devil was not taming the devil...
Approximate duration of the performance: 23 hours 40 minutes
