The Taming of the Shrew

[topherscott]

If you're in Chicago and have the opportunity, you MUST go see the current production of TotS at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. It's completely awesome. I'm not going to go into details because I don't want to spoil folks who haven't seen it yet, but I will say that the new Induction/framing story works brilliantly as both an exploration and a

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[gammahamster]

I'm pretty sure you can't spoil something half a millennium old. :p

[izzyryu]

You can't, but they did some interesting things with the whole "play within a play" framework. The framework they added was completely new, and added some really cool twists that can be spoiled.

[topherscott]

To give you an idea of the context of the frame without spoiling anything, I went to my professor today and said "I'm going to be writing my paper on the way the new frame interacts with the original text. Is it okay if I use 'Fuck This!' as my thesis statement?"

She laughed and said "That's awesome! Yes, absolutely."