Justin Audibert

Panel on the RSC’s gender-flipped Taming of the Shrew: Kate & Petruchio in the age of #MeToo
Panel on the RSC’s gender-flipped Taming of the Shrew: Kate & Petruchio in the age of #MeToo

Panel on the RSC’s gender-flipped Taming of the Shrew: Kate & Petruchio in the age of #MeToo

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:23:40+00:0029 April 2019|Tags: Claire Price, Dr Emma Whipday, Joan Iyiola, Joseph Arkley, Justin Audibert, Royal Shakespeare Company, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, Terri Paddock events, The Other Place, The Taming of the Shrew|

I had a fabulous time last week in Stratford-upon-Avon seeing Justin Audibert’s new re-gendered production of Shakespeare’s early “battle of the sexes” comedy The Taming of the Shrew (1591), set in a parallel Elizabethan universe where women are in charge.

Q&A photos and podcast: Why has James Shirley’s The Cardinal been overlooked since the 17th century?
Q&A photos and podcast: Why has James Shirley’s The Cardinal been overlooked since the 17th century?

Q&A photos and podcast: Why has James Shirley’s The Cardinal been overlooked since the 17th century?

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T18:31:24+00:003 May 2017|Tags: James Shirley, Justin Audibert, Max Pappenheim, Natalie Simpson, Post-show Q&As, RSC, Shakespeare, Southwark Playhouse, Stephen Boxer, Terri Paddock events, The Cardinal|

James Shirley's 1641 tragic masterpiece The Cardinal, one of the last plays staged in England before Oliver Cromwell's ban on theatre, this month receives its first major production since the 17th century.