THE TAMING
play program


Recently, The Travelling Toe and a Dear Friend attended the Saturday afternoon performance of "The Taming" presented by the Circle Theatre in downtown Fort Worth,  The play was written by Lauren Gunderson.

LAUREN GUNDERSON
playwright

Playscripts, whose tag line is "All The Stage Is Our World"  describes the play on their website as follows:

Tweetering, pandashrews, and undying giddiness for James Madison -- what else could you expect to find at a Miss America pageant? In this hilarious, raucous, all-female "power-play" inspired by Shakespeare's Shrew, contestant Katherine has political aspirations to match her beauty pageant ambitions. All she needs to revolutionize the American government is the help of one ultra-conservative senator's aide on the cusp of a career breakthrough, and one bleeding-heart liberal blogger who will do anything for her cause. Well, that and a semi-historically-accurate ether trip. Here's lookin' at you, America.

The play consists of 3 women actors and is told in 2 acts, with sort of a closing epilogue. We both found the play to be extremely funny and a close look at the political scene from both the conservative and liberal side with the Beauty Queen in the middle of the mix.  A funny tidbit was that the conservative wore a blue top and the liberal wore a red top just to mix it up a bit.  All three actresses were excellent in their respective roles.  The stage setting was so creative as the Circle Theatre has a small stage to work with and it was put to good use. The costumes were very creative especially for Miss Georgia...hey y'all!

CAST:

Lisa Fairchild                                 Patricia

Lauren Ferebee                            Bianca

Liz J millea                                   Katherine

If you have the opportunity to see this play wherever you live, then go see it.  It certainly was worth the price of the ticket for the two of us.

CIRCLE THEATRE
Fort Worth  TX

Circle Theatre