Shakespeare in a Box: The Taming of the Shrew

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Elevate your next dinner party or add drama to the weekend family gathering!

Bring the Bard home with a literary twist on parlor games -- a host-your-own Shakespeare play, where friends, family, and guests are the director, actors, crew, and audience, supplying everything from stormy sound effects to rousing applause.

Adapting one of Shakespeare's best-known, best-loved works -- The Taming of the Shrew -- here is a complete kit for producing and acting out a rollicking 45-minute version of the comedy: clear directions on how to cast and direct; essential props; and ten cleverly abridged scripts. Just add willing participants (numbering four and up). It is entertainment most excellent.

Shakespeare in a Box: The Taming of the Shrew includes:

10 Playing Scripts: poetic and concise, in the Bard's own language and incorporating all major plot turns.

Director's Notes and Complete Play: all of The Taming of the Shrew, annotated from an actor/director's perspective.

Player's Cards: casting chart, technical notes, and how to find your inner shrewish Kate.

Flute: the key prop that Bianca cracks over Hortensio's head. Ouch!

Groucho Glasses: to aid in the comic chaos wherein no fewer than three characters impersonate someone else.

Wig: calling all lusty widows! (see scene 9)

SYNOPSIS

All the living room's a stage! And your friends and family merely players, with their exits and entrances-and 45 minutes of utter enjoyment. Created by an imaginative drama teacher, Shakespeare in a Box is a complete theater company in a box.

Shakespeare in a Box is like a host-your-own-murder game, but with an intellectual and artistic bent. Beginning with one of Shakespeare's best-known, best-loved works, the comedy The Taming of the Shrew, each kit has everything needed to produce and act out a thoroughly entertaining 45-minute version of the play: cards for a director and technical director, showing how to cast the play, direct it, stage it, and create easy sets and sound effects; cards for each of the major parts, with a summary of the character and suggestions on how to play him or her; ten cleverly abridged copies of the script; and key props.

For Taming of the Shrew, each kit contains a working plastic recorder (a "flute" instead of a lute), plastic Groucho eyeglasses and a wig.