The Taming of the Shrew

Having directed a couple of shows in the Sam Wanamaker, hip director Jude Christian makes the leap to the main Globe theatre for the first time as she tackles a typically thorny play; Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’. Despite – or perhaps because of – the almost undeniable misogyny in the way Petruchio sets about ‘taming’ the truculent Katherine, the play remains impressively popular as a creative challenge to directors, who tend to find inventive ways to either mitigate its misogyny or use it to make audiences feel uncomfortable. There’s not much of a clue as to the aesthetic, though the words ‘absurd carnival’ are bandied around in the official description.