The Taming
- Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day
- 3F
- ISBN: ps2735
Tweetering, pandashrews, and undying giddiness for James Madison -- what else could you expect to find at a Miss America pageant?
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Appropriate for all audiences
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Cautions: Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language
- Performance Group:
- High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre
- Accolades:
- Winner! 2013 Best of The Bay (Theater Dogs San Francisco)
Top 10 Plays! (The Stranger Seattle)
In this hilarious, raucous, all-female "power-play" inspired by Shakespeare's Shrew, contestant Katherine has political aspirations to match her beauty pageant ambitions. All she needs to revolutionize the American government is the help of one ultra-conservative senator's aide on the cusp of a career breakthrough, and one bleeding-heart liberal blogger who will do anything for her cause. Well, that and a semi-historically-accurate ether trip. Here's lookin' at you, America.
This is the third play in the Shakespeare Cycle, a series of contemporary comedies based on Shakespeare's plays. See Exit, Pursued by a Bear and Toil and Trouble for the other plays in this series.
REVIEWS:
"Gunderson's Taming is a laugh riot with some timely food for thought."
Rob Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
"The Taming has much to offer that is pointed, thought-provoking and laugh-out-loud funny."
Chad Jones, Theater Dogs
"The most tremendously entertaining civics lesson you're likely to see."
Sam Hurwitt, The Idiolect
Characters
- Casting: 3F
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Tweetering, pandashrews, and undying giddiness for James Madison -- what else could you expect to find at a Miss America pageant? In this hilarious, raucous, all-female "power-play" inspired by Shakespeare's Shrew, contestant Katherine has political aspirations to match her beauty pageant ambitions. All she needs to revolutionize the American government is the help of one ultra-conservative senator's aide on the cusp of a career breakthrough, and one bleeding-heart liberal blogger who will do anything for her cause. Well, that and a semi-historically-accurate ether trip. Here's lookin' at you, America |
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