Lois Anderson

Bard’s Spaghetti Western The Taming of the Shrew is everything a retelling should be

By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Oh, Bard on the Beach. How I love you. Setting a Shakespearean comedy to the absurd Spaghetti Western genre was a hilarious and brilliant artistic direction. I find that comedies are prone to age poorlBay since the jokes get lost over time, but this show was genuinely hilarious. Everything from The Taming of the Shrew’s costumes (Mara Gottler) to the set (Cory Sincennes) and the godawful country music played before and after the show and at the intermission sold me on this strange world. There was even square dancing during the curtain call.  I also appreciated a…

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