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Gender-swapped ‘Taming of the Shrew'

Kristal Copeland
IT MANAG E R

Misters and mistresses, I would like
to invite you all to watch a brilliant piece of art.
This coming weekend, April 2 and 3 (Saturday
and Sunday,) 33rd Street Productions will
perform a gender—flipped telling of Taming of
the Shrew in the MTCC Ballroom (next to the
auditorium down the stairs that are next to the
7—11) on Saturday and the Herman Hall Expo
Room (in the front of the Arc) on Sunday.
This show has come together amazingly, with

 

a brilliant cast. It is being performed in the
round, as Shakespeare is often performed.
Without much spoiling, basic
structure is thus; 33rd Street Production’s
presentation of this show is about a young
man named Katarino, (Raj Zaveri) who has a
strong—willed, rude, and violent personality
Because of this, it has proven difficult for
him to find a suitor, leading his mother, Lady
Bapticia (Kurt Olson) to proclaim that she
will not allow the more timid—and more
desired—son, Bianco (Joseph Prager) to be
married until Katarino is first married. There

are many suitors after Bianco, who all scheme
together with Petruchia (Sydney McNamar) to
fund her wooing and taming of him, to turn
him from an independent man who don’t need
no woman, to a meek, submissive, foot stool
whose “hand is ready.” The rest of the story
surrounds three women’s attempts to win the
heart of Bianco. Gremia (Francesca Miller), an
old woman who has wanted to court Bianco for
a while, Hortensia (Vanya Yorgova,) a woman
who has always been a rival in her love, and
Lucentia (Hannah Burkhardt) who fell in love
at first sight.

Photos from Illinois Tech Robotics' Midwestern Robotics Design Competition

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The show is produced by Vanya
Yorgova and directed by Wes Ludwig.

In short, 33rd Street Productions is
performing Taming of the Shrew this Saturday
at MTCC Ballroom, doors open at 6:30 pm.
and this Sunday in the Herman Hall Expo
Room, with doors opening at 12:30 pm.

If you would like to be added to the
email list, email 33rd.iit@gmail.com. We have
lists for people who want to be involved and
people who only want to be on the list for
production dates, we also have a techie email
list as well.

 

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Photos by Kori Bowns