'Women are the powerbrokers': gender-flipping Shakespeare's Shrew by Natasha Tripney

Two new takes on The Taming of the Shrew radically alter the dynamic by setting the play in a matriarchal society The first time Jo Clifford was asked to adapt The Taming of the Shrew, she hated the play so much she turned the commission down. It was right at the beginning of her career. "I wasn't ready to do it then," she says. So when the Sherman theatre's artistic director Rachel O'Riordan approached her, she felt…

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