Der Zähmung Widerspenstigkeit VON Katja Brunner NACH Motiven von William Shakespeare REGIE Pınar Karabulut

All's well that ends well? Baptista, a wealthy merchant from Padua, will not agree to the marriage of his younger daughter Bianca until his older daughter Katharina has also married. But the unruly girl is not so easy to get married to. No man is interested in her because of her quick tongue and rebellious nature. Only after some tricky cunning and countless changes of disguise and identity is a romantic happy ending guaranteed for the couples in Shakespeare's play.

Katja Brunner, Switzerland's most successful contemporary playwright, has written a play commissioned by the Deutsches Theater Berlin that takes William Shakespeare's classic The Taming of the Shrew as its starting point and puts the cultural practice of romantic love relationships to the test. Her polyphonic text renegotiates the old game of love, gender and identity. It is exclusively women who have their say and unleash a linguistically powerful storm against popular male fantasies, romantic love lies and violence against women. A defiance of the tame. A poetic plea for a different tomorrow.