#petruchio

EXACTLY that’s what makes me love it too because it has “if it weren’t for the baby” energy like … that’s Peeta … just the really mean, bitter, “son of the witch,” version of Peeta but still HIM my petty child

which is interesting because objectively petruchio is like. fucking evil. despite being so much like him in his courting of fadel, style is not like petruchio beyond that and i think that’s honestly the only way they could keep the parallel as close as possible while still making him likable and making us want to root for fadel and style.

Yekaterina Krysanova Екатерина Крысанова as “Katharina” and Vladislav Lantratov Владислав Лантратов as “Petruchio”, “The Taming of the Shrew Укрощение строптивой”, choreo by Jean Christophe Maillot, music by Dmitry Shostakovich Дмитрий Шостакович, costume design by Augustin Maillot, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, 2015 Dance Open Ballet, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 24, 2015).

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It would be the absolute BEST way to stage TAMING. Maybe the only way that really works in this day and age?

BDSM is all about theater for 2. Even when nobody's watching you, which is often, you're playing a role that doesn't look the same as normal life.

And TAMING is all about performance! You could keep it at the outermost layer, the framing story of TAMING. Have the whole thing take place inside a BDSM club or something. Heighten the unreality - remind the audience of a show within a show.

Or get more thematic - Kate and Petruchio are both performing all the time. Performing as jerks, trying to be unlovable and scare people away. It would be really powerful to show them both as understanding the performance of the other, and then them joining to make it a performance of 2 against everyone else.

You could use a wide range of BDSM activities, too - everything from light spanking, to a fetish club, to lifestyle BDSM would work!