" Re-vision - the art of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction-is for women more than a chaper in cultural history: it is an act of survival."
--Adrienne Rich

Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is, arguably, a "comedy" about the breaking of a woman's spirit, about her acceptance of male supremacy and female servitude. Using Central Works collaborative method, the company has fashioned a new play out of Shakespeare's words.

By removing the slapstick subplots and cutting all but five of the principle roles from the original text, the play has been boiled down to its essential relationships. The result is a different story from that told by Shakespeare four hundred years ago. It is a story that views Katherine's plight from a modern perspective; a very old story told in a very new and different way.