The Taming of the Shrew (1973 film) explained

Director:	Robin Lovejoy^[1] Donald Zweck
Starring:	John Bell Carole McCready Ron Haddrick John Gaden Melissa Jaffer
Company:	ABC
Network:	ABC
Released:	(Sydney)
Released2:	(Melbourne)
Runtime:	120 mins^[2]
Country:	Australia
Language:	English

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]}

Cast

• John Bell as Petruchio
• Carole McCready as Bianca
• Ron Haddrick as Baptista
• John Gaden
• Melissa Jaffer as Widow
• Martin Vaughan
• Robyn Nevin as Barmaid
• Tom Farley
• Gil Tucker
• Edmund Falzon
• Michael Rolfe
• John Walton
• Drew Forsythe

Production

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

Reception

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

External links

• • Production details of 1972 Old Tote performance at AusStage

Notes and References

1. News: The Sydney Morning Herald TV Guide. 1. 'Shrew' modern and Australian. 22 January 1973.
2. News: TV Guide. The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 January 1973. 12.
3. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p151
4. [Elizabeth Schafer]
5. News: The Age TV Guide. 18 January 1973. 2. So what's new for 1973?.
6. News: The Age. Now the bard's broken enter Strinespeare. John. Pinkney. 9 March 1973. 2.