On With the Shrew!
By Bill Van Horn
On With the Shrew! is a one-act play that needs 11 or more performers (6 women, 5 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 11 or more performers
- Roles
- 6 women, 5 men
- Cast notes
- 5m., 6w. (extras.)
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
It's five minutes before curtain time for the drama club's "cool," upbeat adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and all is not well. The stars, Ron (Petruchio) and Terri Ann (Kate) refuse to go on stage and Bernie (Baptista) has lost his shoes. The harried director insists that the show go on. Rich, old Baptista has two daughters: "Bianca is the nicer of the two; Kate, the older, is Kate, the Shrew." Bianca likes men, but Kate doesn't! "I beg thee, pardon her, my sister, she hates all
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