The Taming of the Shrew: R.S.C. 1999,Director, Lindsay Posner; Bianca: Charlotte Randle; Kate; Monica Dolan.

"The opening and closing scenes about the drunken tinker Christopher Sly are in modern dress; the central 'Taming' play is an Elizabethan period-dress fantasy that he beams up on a video screen and which then comes to life on stage, with him transformed into the role of Petruchio. Ashley Martin-Davis designing, does a handsome yet unobtrusive job. The fantasy vanishes, and the feckless Sly is left clinging to the memory of his dream." Alastair Macaulay, Financial Times 9.11.99. Opening Date: 2 December 1999, Swan Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company(ahds.ac.uk/performingarts).

The sinister state of mind of Kate at the start of the play is expressed vividly in this image. HMR