Author(s): William Shakespeare
Director: Oscaras KORSHUNOVAS

Translation: Polina Melkova

Direction: Oscaras KORSHUNOVAS

Scene design: Yuraite PAULEKAITE
Music: Ghintaras SODEIKA
Costume Designer: Agne KUZMITAKAITE
Light Designer: Eugenius SABALYAUSKAS
Assistant Director: Polina NEVEDOMSKAYA

Stage Manager: Lana ivanova

"For me, “The Taming of the Shrew” in no way is a comedy about the “art of direction.” The play starts with an induction. Sly moves into a different reality and lets himself be convinced that he is not a Sly at all. An illusion of a new world is created. I see the theme of correspondence between the reality and the theater and the art as the most important aspect. The reality is nothing else but a space for creativity; there is no such thing in objectivity; we have only what we’ve created. This play speaks about creativity; it tells that any relations could be established in the way they are desired. The Sun would never change, even if we call it a Moon. In other words, it is what that is important, and not how. This play tells that a dream, if it is a true dream, is capable to turn into reality. And that is it. The Theater itself is only a dream as well, as is any other piece of art…”
Oscaras Korshunovas

Cast:

Lord	Semyon SYTNIK
Christopher Sly, a Tinker	Valentin ZAKHAROV
Cantiniere	Yulia MARCHENKO
Page	Andrey MATYUKOV
Baptista, a rich Gentleman of Padua, the First Huntsman	Victor SMIRNOV
Vincentio, an old Gentleman of Pisa	Eygeny KAPITONOV
Lucentio, Son to Vincentio, in love with Bianca	Tikhon ZHIZNEVSKY
Petruchio, a Gentleman of Verona, bridegroom to Katharina	Dmitry LYSENKOV
Gremio } Suitors to Bianca Hortensio	Igor VOLKOV Vitaly KOVALENKO
Tranio } Servants to Lucentio Biondello	Andrey SHIMKO Stepan BALAKSHIN
Grumio } Servants to Petruchio Curtis	Pavel YURINOV Sergey YELIKOV
Teacher, the Second Huntsman	Vladimir LISETSKY
Katharina } Daughters to Baptista Bianca	Alexandra BOLSHAKOVA Maria LUGOVAYA
Widow	Yulia MARCHENKO
Tailor, Haberdasher,	Vladimir KOLGANOV
Servant	Alexey Zubkovsky

Actors, huntsmen, servants: actors of the theater

First Night: September 14, 2010

Playing time: 3 hours. The performance goes with one intermission.