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’.
