The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.
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Amanda Root
- Kathryn Minola
- (voice)
Nigel Le Vaillant
- Petruchio
- (voice)
Malcolm Storry
- Sly
- (voice)
- …
Manon Edwards
- Bianca Minola
- (voice)
John Warner
- Gremio
- (voice)
- …
Gerald James
- Baptista
- (voice)
Lawmary Champion
- Hostess
- (voice)
- …
Hilton McRae
- Hortensio
- (voice)
- …
Richard Pearce
- Lucentio
- (voice)
Mick Walter
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (as Big Mick)
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Shakespeare's play in 25 minutes
Director: Aida Zyablikova, 1994
You want to see a Shakespeare play but you are worried that you are not strong and patient enough to stand a three-hour performance? Then the BBC Shakespeare Animated Tales are something for you. This series of movies provides an easy access to the Shakespearian plays by cutting of several parts of the original play but without sacrificing it too much for simplification and or contradiction. In "The Taming of the Shrew", a comedy about love and 'the right behaviour', we have two story lines taking place. The so-called Induction shows how the drunken tinker Christopher Sly is tricked by a nobleman into believing that he is a lord. To amuse him, the nobleman has a play performed which shows the courtship of Petruchio and Katherine and the competition between several suitors of Katherine's sister Bianca, which is the second story line. This attempt to provide an easy access to Shakespeare works out well but I am not sure whether I would have understood everything if I had not known the Shakespearian play. At some points, the action takes place very fast and the setting changes within seconds so that one does not really have time to distinguish between the characters. It could be difficult to get what is happening and how the characters are related to each other. A basic knowledge of the plot and the characters might be useful. The movie focuses on the story line with Katherine and Petruchio so that one could forget that there is a second story line going on, i.e. the story of Bianca and Lucentio. One of the key scenes of the play (the bet of the men on the obedience of their wives) is somewhat lost because of that because we are not really introduced to the character of Bianca. What certainly gets lost are some adult issues included in the relationship between Katherine and Petruchio like the development of real affection because of all the witty discussions they have. This was probably put in the rear because of the audience the movie was made for – children. The design and animation in the movie seem to be created with love. The figures' outward appearances hint at their characters. Katherine's red curls always blow over her head and her bright red dress is moving all the time. We can immediately guess that she is the lively and wild character, the 'shrew' we are talking about. We meet her first when her father and her sister are talking to two suitors whom she knocks down deliberately without apologies. Blonde Bianca, however, is dressed in white, has a soft voice and is portrayed as the 'good' girl right from the beginning. Petruchio, all dressed in black, seems to be supposed to be the villain in the movie. But at the same time his face always has a slightly smiling and witty expression so that his somewhat ambivalent character is expressed quite well. Summary? All right. I definitely recommend this movie because it allows you to grasp Shakespeare's play within half an hour. It is a good solution for teachers and everybody else to have an enjoyable little movie that somewhat sums up the play. But probably you should have read the play before or at least have some basic knowledge before you watch it.
You want to see a Shakespeare play but you are worried that you are not strong and patient enough to stand a three-hour performance? Then the BBC Shakespeare Animated Tales are something for you. This series of movies provides an easy access to the Shakespearian plays by cutting of several parts of the original play but without sacrificing it too much for simplification and or contradiction. In "The Taming of the Shrew", a comedy about love and 'the right behaviour', we have two story lines taking place. The so-called Induction shows how the drunken tinker Christopher Sly is tricked by a nobleman into believing that he is a lord. To amuse him, the nobleman has a play performed which shows the courtship of Petruchio and Katherine and the competition between several suitors of Katherine's sister Bianca, which is the second story line. This attempt to provide an easy access to Shakespeare works out well but I am not sure whether I would have understood everything if I had not known the Shakespearian play. At some points, the action takes place very fast and the setting changes within seconds so that one does not really have time to distinguish between the characters. It could be difficult to get what is happening and how the characters are related to each other. A basic knowledge of the plot and the characters might be useful. The movie focuses on the story line with Katherine and Petruchio so that one could forget that there is a second story line going on, i.e. the story of Bianca and Lucentio. One of the key scenes of the play (the bet of the men on the obedience of their wives) is somewhat lost because of that because we are not really introduced to the character of Bianca. What certainly gets lost are some adult issues included in the relationship between Katherine and Petruchio like the development of real affection because of all the witty discussions they have. This was probably put in the rear because of the audience the movie was made for – children. The design and animation in the movie seem to be created with love. The figures' outward appearances hint at their characters. Katherine's red curls always blow over her head and her bright red dress is moving all the time. We can immediately guess that she is the lively and wild character, the 'shrew' we are talking about. We meet her first when her father and her sister are talking to two suitors whom she knocks down deliberately without apologies. Blonde Bianca, however, is dressed in white, has a soft voice and is portrayed as the 'good' girl right from the beginning. Petruchio, all dressed in black, seems to be supposed to be the villain in the movie. But at the same time his face always has a slightly smiling and witty expression so that his somewhat ambivalent character is expressed quite well. Summary? All right. I definitely recommend this movie because it allows you to grasp Shakespeare's play within half an hour. It is a good solution for teachers and everybody else to have an enjoyable little movie that somewhat sums up the play. But probably you should have read the play before or at least have some basic knowledge before you watch it.
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