ROMEO AND JULIET - Stratford Festival
ROMEO AND JULIET - Stratford Festival
ROMEO AND JULIET - Stratford Festival
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Monette as Lucentio and William Needles as Gremio. Jean Gascon directed with design<br />
by Desmond Heeley. The 1973 production toured Europe prior to the 1973 season.<br />
1979 (Third Stage, now known as the Tom Patterson Theatre): Graeme Campbell played<br />
Petruchio and Margot Dionne played Katherine, with Lewis Gordon as Gremio and Tom<br />
Wood as Grumio. Pamela Hawthorne directed with design by John Pennoyer.<br />
1981 (<strong>Festival</strong> Theatre): Len Cariou played Petruchio and Sharry Flett played Katherine,<br />
with Rod Beattie as Gremio, Keith Dinicol as Biondello, Colm Feore as Tranio, Lewis<br />
Gordon as Grumio. Peter Dews directed with design by Susan Benson. The production<br />
was filmed by CBC and is available on videocassette.<br />
1988 (<strong>Festival</strong> Theatre): Colm Feore played Petruchio and Goldie Semple played<br />
Katherine, with Henry Czerny as Lucentio, Keith Dinicol as Grumio, Scott Wentworth as<br />
Tranio, Geraint Wyn Davies as Hortensio. Richard Monette directed with design by<br />
Debra Hanson. The production was broadcast by CBC but is not available on<br />
videocassette.<br />
1997 (<strong>Festival</strong> Theatre): Peter Donaldson played Petruchio and Lucy Peacock played<br />
Katherine, with Benedict Campbell as Hortensio, Jonathan Crombie as Lucentio, Cynthia<br />
Dale as Bianca, and Stephen Ouimette as Grumio. Richard Rose directed with set and<br />
lighting design by Graeme Thomson and costumes by Charlotte Dean. Composer was<br />
Louis Applebaum.<br />
2003 (<strong>Festival</strong> Theatre): Graham Abbey played Petruchio and Seana McKenna played<br />
Katherina, with Wayne Best as Grumio, Kyle Blair as Lucentio, Lally Cadeau as a<br />
Widow, Donald Carrier as Hortensio, Paul Dunn as Biondello, Jonathan Goad as Tranio,<br />
Deborah Hay as Bianca, Brad Rudy as Gremio and Paul Soles as Baptista Minola. Miles<br />
Potter directed with fight direction by John Stead, choreography by John Broome, design<br />
by Patrick Clark, lighting design by Steven Hawkins, music composed by Marc<br />
Desormeaux and sound by Jim Neil.<br />
IN OTHER TERMS<br />
Jonathan Miller (who directed King Lear, 2002 at <strong>Stratford</strong>) directed a BBC-television<br />
version of the play in 1980. John Cleese, of Monty Python fame, played Petruchio; John<br />
Franklyn-Robbins (<strong>Stratford</strong> alumnus) played Baptista and Sarah Badel was Kate. The<br />
production presented the play with an unapologetic Elizabethan perspective and made no<br />
attempts to soften the interpretation for modern audiences.<br />
Franco Zeffirelli directed Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in 1967’s<br />
Italian/American La Bisbetica domata, also released as The Taming of the Shrew.<br />
Husband-and-wife team Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Mary Pickford starred in a 1929 silent<br />
film version of the play, which was later released with soundtrack and music. In 1908, a<br />
silent film was made. In all, eleven films have been made of the Shrew.<br />
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