Join company as it plays Shakespeare classic at open-air performance
TICKETS are still available for The New Quorndon Shakespeare Company’s open-air production of The Taming of the Shrew in Quorn this month.
After long months with no productions, the company have said they are looking forward to getting together and performing again.
An open-air production will provide an opportunity for local amateur actors to perform again this summer and casting is open to all actors over 16 years of age.
The performances will take place at 2pm on August 28, 29 and 30 in the Stafford Orchard.
The NQSC has said it would also welcome any mu s ic ians interested in playing traditional English music in the production.
Performances will comply with any restrictions in place and the audience will be protected from the weather by an opensided marquee. The NQSC has experience in presenting open-air productions as in the summer of 2017 the company performed A Comedy of Errors, which was followed by As You Like It in 2019. The Taming of the Shrew tells the story of Katharine, whose father refuses to let her younger sister wed until the older has been taken off his hands.
Petruchio, a brash suitor, more interested in “wiving wealthily” than in a love match, agrees to marry Katharine and intends to “tame the shrew”.
Even though, judging from his other works, Shakespeare has a high opinion of women’s intellect, modern actors and directors have found this particular play problematic.
Petruchio’s method of “taming” Katharine, not to mention his reasons for doing so, do not resonate well with modern audiences. However, there is still much to recommend the lively play and the NQSC intends to pull out all the stops to make sure that this post-lockdown production is thoroughly entertaining.
The company aims to create a lively, colourful spectacle based around a medieval tournament with plenty of music, action and comedy.
For more details and tickets, go to the company’s website.
The company aims to create a lively, colourful spectacle based around a medieval tournament with plenty of music, action and comedy