The Tamer Tamed (also known as The Woman’s Prize) is a Jacobean comedy by John Fletcher and a riposte to Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew in which a woman is humiliated and cowed by her husband.
In this play reversal of fortunes very much order of the day with the misogynistic Petruchio from Shakespeare’s original play now married to his second wife, Maria, and finding the tables very much turned and the tamer tamed as the battle of the sexes is played out among other things with a collective women’s sex strike.
The Tamer Tamed is on at The Casa on Hope Street on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st July.
Tickets for The Tamer Tamed At The Theatre At The Casa on the 20th and 21st July are on sale now. Tickets are priced at £7, with concessions available at £5.
NB: The performance contains adult content.