Robin Norton-Hale's update of The Taming of the Shrew cuts out key elements of Shakespeare's original. Should some texts remain sacred or is it wrong to shackle directors?You'd think that the two most important elements of The Taming of the Shrew were obvious, wouldn't you? You need a shrew, Katherine, and, over the course of the play, she needs to be tamed, which involves Petruchio's famous attempt "to kill a wife w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AM on October 25, 2011