During the COVID-19 lockdowns, to deal with isolation and lack of live theatre, we started gathering some of our favourite people every Tuesday & Saturday night to read scripts over Zoom. We read all 38 Shakespeare plays in six months. Then we kept going. We decided to create mini-seasons featuring highlights from the canons of major writers across generations, plus a few bonus episodes thrown in.

 

All of our readings are available to enjoy as full videos on our YouTube page but we’re also releasing them in audio form so they can be accessed through your favourite podcast app.

 

To celebrate two years since the beginning of Corona Cold Reads, our troupe reunited for a four-episode season of Shakespeare Reboots. We revisited four texts that we’d read together way back in early 2020, this time with all-new casts. In this episode, we return to The Taming of the Shrew, a play always worth re-evaluation that was plagued with technical difficulties last time we read it.

 

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The Cast of Taming 2.0:

Katharina- Sarah Dunne

Petruchio/A Player – Laura Hubbard

Lucentio- Shalyn Bass-McFaul

Third Servant/Curtis/Biondello- Nicole Falgoust

First Servant/Tailor/Tranio- Miriam B

Sly/ Nicholas/Pedant/Hortensio- Christopher Prentice

Lord/Peter/Gremio- Elizabeth Morriss

Baptista/Joseph – Weldon Goree

Hostess/Bianca – Talley Gale

First Huntsman/Page/Nathaniel/Widow- Sarah Sansom

Second Huntsman/Messenger/Philip/Haberdasher- Claudia Liz

Second Servant/Grumio/Vincentio – Hilary Wartinger