The Taming of the Shrew (1973 film)

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The Taming of the Shrew
Directed byRobin Lovejoy[1]
Donald Zweck
Based onplay by William Shakespeare
StarringJohn Bell
Carole McCready
Ron Haddrick
John Gaden
Melissa Jaffer
Production
company
ABC
Release dates
25 January 1973 (Sydney)
6 March 1973 (Melbourne)
Running time
120 mins[2]
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

The Taming of the Shrew is a 1973 Australian TV screening of the Old Tote production of the play by William Shakespeare, relocated to an unnamed town in New South Wales at the turn of the twentieth century.[3][4]

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Production[edit]

The ABC announced it in January 1973.[5] It was one of several stage productions recreated by the ABC for television including Hamlet.

Reception[edit]

The Age wrote "why Taming had to be cheekily rewritten and rendered down into ill-tasting Strinespeare escaped this critic's understanding."[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "'Shrew' modern and Australian". The Sydney Morning Herald TV Guide. 22 January 1973. p. 1.
  2. ^ "TV Guide". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 January 1973. p. 12.
  3. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p151
  4. ^ Elizabeth Schafer, "Reconciliation Shakespeare?: Aboriginal presence in Australian Shakespeare Production", in Elizabeth Schafer and Susan Bradley Smith (eds.), Playing Australia: Australian Theatre and the International Stage (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003), 64
  5. ^ "So what's new for 1973?". The Age TV Guide. 18 January 1973. p. 2.
  6. ^ Pinkney, John (9 March 1973). "Now the bard's broken enter Strinespeare". The Age. p. 2.

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