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23 October 1980 (UK) morePlot:
The swaggering Petruchio, eager to wive it wealthily in Padua, agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine. full summary | full synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Wonderful performance moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Simon Chandler | ... | Lucentio |
| Anthony Pedley | ... | Tranio |
| John Franklyn-Robbins | ... | Baptista |
| Frank Thornton | ... | Gremio |
| Sarah Badel | ... | Katherine |
| Jonathan Cecil | ... | Hortensio |
| Susan Penhaligon | ... | Bianca |
| Harry Waters | ... | Biondello |
 | John Cleese | ... | Petruchio |
| David Kincaid | ... | Grumio |
| Bev Willis | ... | Baptista's Servant |
| Angus Lennie | ... | Curtis |
| Harry Webster | ... | Nathaniel |
| Gil Morris | ... | Philip |
| Leslie Sarony | ... | Gregory |
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I saw this when first broadcast on PBS. I have no idea where you would find it now. It was a bit minimalist in its setting and staging, but that was part of the wonderful effect. I believe (and hope I am getting this right) that Jonathon Miller said the goal was to very much represent what an Elizabethan playgoer would have seen if they had been to an opening performance of Bill Shakespeare's plays. I seem to recall John Cleese saying that it came to him some time into rehearsals that this was the official BBC version for the next several decades and that he was shocked that he had stupidly missed that point until later and also shocked that he had that much responsibility. He ended up hiring a tutor to run lines with him so he could get every word with 100% accuracy.
I wish I could find it to see again.