The Taming of the Shrew (2011)
Performance Dates:
July 1, 2, 10, 15, 17, 22, 28, 30, 2011 at 8pm
Plot Synopsis
The beautiful and gentle Bianca has no shortage of admirers (Lucentio, Gremio and Hortensio) but her father insists that she will not marry until her shrewish sister, Katharina, is betrothed. Bianca's suitors persuade fortune-seeker Petruchio to court her. The suitors pay for any costs involved and there is also the goal of Katharina's dowry. Petruchio marries Katharina and he carries Katharina off to his country house with his servant Grumio. Petruchio intends to browbeat Katharina into submission and he denies her food, sleep and her new clothes, whilst continuously singing her praises. Katharina is tamed. They return to Padua where Lucentio has won Bianca. At a banquet they wager on who has the most obedient wife. Each wife is issued with commands but only Katharina obeys and promptly lectures everyone on the importance of wifely submission.
Cast & Crew
| Baptista Minola | Elizabeth Holzman |
| Katherina Minola | Nina Breton |
| Bianca Minola | Megan O'Laughlin |
| Servants to Baptista | Hope Raymond, Nita Christi |
| Servant to BiAnca | Hannah Gough |
| Gremio | Tom Rhatigan* |
| Hortensio | Julian Sandoval |
| Lucentio | Al Padilla |
| Tranio | Tara Henry |
| Biondello | Victoria Alvarez-Chacon |
| Vincentio | Maszaba Carter |
| Petruchio | Rick Eldridge |
| Grumio | Will Block |
| Curtis | Andrew Cochrane |
| Philip | Denise Ivey |
| Joseph | Drew Struck |
| Walter | Eric Wood |
| Sugarsop | Hannah Gough |
| Natty | Hope Raymond |
| Peter | Kayla Willett |
| Nichola | Mikayla Lambeth |
| Cook | Nita Christi |
| Robert | Robert Arenivar |
| Ralph | Rachael Sherer |
| Abby, the Tailor | Catherine Nickerson |
| The Pedant | Lew Rooker |
| The Widow | Theresa Vann-Stribling |
| * Member of Actors Equity | |
| Director | Christine Nicholson |
| Scenic Design | Shawn Weinsheink |
| Lighting Design | Stephen Charles Jones |
| Sound Designer | Scott Bailey |
| Costume Design | Nicole Sivell |
| Choreographer | Nathaniel Justiniano |
| Prologue | Luther Hanson |
| Production Manager | Stephen Charles Jones |
| Stage Manager | Joy Gee |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Rosalia Seyman |
| Technical Director | Shawn Weinsheink |
| Assistant Technical Director | Scott Bailey |
| Costume Shop Supervisor | Nicole Sivell |
| Scenic Artist | Samantha McLean Haas |
| Properties Artisan | Trina Palmer |
| Master Electrician | Owen Lenox |
| Light Board Operator | Megan Hester-McCullough |
| Sound Board Operator | Kyle Dodgin |
| Stage Crew | Alicia Morris, Sinead Kennedy, Ethel Watts, Robert Mylove |
| Carpenters | Owen Lenox, Kyle Dodgin, Catherine Mullins, Alejandro Padilla |
| Lead Stitchers | Breanna Reilly, Sarah Rowland, Elizabeth Todd |
| Stitchers | John Crabtree, Julianna Hess, Sinead Kennedy, Alison Vail, Mikayla Lambeth, Eryn Miller, Olivia White |
| Costume Crafts Artisan | Lalena Hutton |
| Dressers | John Crabtree, Meghan Cazadio, Murdhuacha Matrix |
| Dog Wrangler | Aurora Vidaura |
| Festival Director | Luther Hanson |
| Intern Supervisor | Lori Ann DeLappe-Grondin |
| Box Office | Cynthia Hawes, Alyse Vogel, John Crabtree, Anthony Person |
| House Manager | Lori Ann DeLappe-Grondin |
| Hospitality | Lenore Justman |
| Finance | Robert W. Gore |
| Poster/Postcard Design | Bill McClosky |
| Photography | Bruce Clarke |
| Web Master | Steve Grondin |