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Justice Theater Project: The Taming by Lauren Gunderson

JTP's The Taming Makes Political Division Hilarious and Ultimately Scary
Theatre Review by Roy C. Dicks, October 25, 2019

( Fri., Oct. 25, 2019 - Sun., Nov. 3, 2019 )

Leggett Theatre at William Peace University, 15 E. Peace Street, Raleigh, NC 27604-1194

Program

Here’s looking at you, America.

Skewering liberals and conservatives alike, The Taming hits political partisanship in the funny bone!

In this hilarious, raucous, all-female "power-play" inspired by Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, Katherine is a beauty pageant contestant with aspirations to revolutionize the American Government by rewriting the Constitution. All she needs to put her mad (yet brilliant) plan into place is to kidnap an ultra-conservative senator’s top aid and an ultra-liberal blogger, and get them into the same room to hash it out. Well, that and a trip back in time to the Constitutional Convention...