The outdoor Theatricum Botanicum opens its season with Shakespeare’s story of deception, disguise and intrigue, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’. When Petruchio arrives in the Italian city of Padua looking for a wealthy wife, he spies Kate, the bad-tempered daughter of Baptista Minolo, and instantly decides to tame her. It’s not an easy task but he is helped out by Kate’s sweet-tempered sister Bianca’s three suitors, in a comic story of the battle of the sexes. This production stars Richard Tyson from the blockbuster movie ‘Battlefield Earth’ and Jim LaFave from ‘The Crucible’.
Top 100 Western Paintings
This hugely impressive out-of-town museum has come up with an exhibition that matches in ambition the wide scope of its collection. Through the chosen 100 paintings of the show’s title, the museum’s curators are attempting to trace 500 years of Western art history from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Many of the big names are here, including Breughel, Renoir, Chagall and Warhol and it’s a rare treat to see so many masterworks under one roof.
