Ami explores Shrew’s untold story at Buxton Fringe

Published: 19 July 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Trapped: Shrew asks what it means to be a woman Credit: Stephanie Yt Chan

Shrew, a new piece of solo theatre exploring one of literature’s most vivid, intriguing and disturbing women—Shakespeare’s Katharina, the heroine of The Taming of the Shrew—plays at Buxton Fringe before transferring to Edinburgh and New York for the United Solo Festival (uFest) in October 2014.

Shrew marks the debut production for writer and performer Ami Jones, director Abigail Pickard Price and producer Alexandra Da Silva. As a trio, their aim is to create new work from the foundations of classical theatre.

They say, “we want to explore the story that goes untold, and let our audiences in on the secret too.”

In a murky in-between world, which is neither reality where she does not belong nor the play where she belongs even less, Katharina laughs, plays and rails bitterly against the lot cast to her by life and literature.

Among other things, she asks what it means to be a woman and what it means to be trapped in our own underwhelming destinies.

Shrew runs in the Pauper’s Pit, Buxton on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 24 to 26 July, at 6:15PM and Sunday 27 July at 1PM.

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