A few pictures added of the younger Peter O'Toole and Sian Phillips to the audio from an LP album, released in 1962.
two excerpts, starts with Petruchio's first meeting with Kate, Act II, scene 2, line 154 (Hortensio's "And with that word she struck me on the head") and continues through to Petruchio and Kate's exit.
Then the dinner scene (Act 4, scene), where Petruchio makes sure a tired Kate doesn't eat and he lays out his plan: "Thus have I politicly begun my reign"...unfortunately, some cuts of the text..
the superb Siân Phillips is best known for her role from TV as Livia as in "I Claudius", a portrait of Livia described by wiki as "as a thoroughly wicked, scheming political mastermind" given to poisoning.
go here to see John Cleese perform this scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2NnhB...
go here to see Marc Singer perform this scene in a very comic style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsL8K9...
Petruchio - Peter O'Toole
Katherina - Siân Phillips
Hortensio - Richard Gale
Baptista - Norman Tyrrell
Grumio - Henry Woolf
Curtis - Peter Birrel
from "Living Shakespeare" LP STS-11A/12A
directed by John Hale, sound effects by Desmond Leslie
two excerpts, starts with Petruchio's first meeting with Kate, Act II, scene 2, line 154 (Hortensio's "And with that word she struck me on the head") and continues through to Petruchio and Kate's exit.
Then the dinner scene (Act 4, scene), where Petruchio makes sure a tired Kate doesn't eat and he lays out his plan: "Thus have I politicly begun my reign"...unfortunately, some cuts of the text..
the superb Siân Phillips is best known for her role from TV as Livia as in "I Claudius", a portrait of Livia described by wiki as "as a thoroughly wicked, scheming political mastermind" given to poisoning.
go here to see John Cleese perform this scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2NnhB...
go here to see Marc Singer perform this scene in a very comic style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsL8K9...
Petruchio - Peter O'Toole
Katherina - Siân Phillips
Hortensio - Richard Gale
Baptista - Norman Tyrrell
Grumio - Henry Woolf
Curtis - Peter Birrel
from "Living Shakespeare" LP STS-11A/12A
directed by John Hale, sound effects by Desmond Leslie
