Shakespeare's Globe, LondonAoife Duffin is an electrifying Kate in Caroline Byrne's splendid Irish version, which injects touches of Yeats, Wilde and Beckett Shakespeare's comedy of Petruchio's plot to woo the unmarriageable Katherine is unpopular in theatre " the heroine's submission to her husband's tyranny now considered literally unspeakable. Paradoxically, however, it is a source for populist modernisations in o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AM on June 6, 2016