The Taming of the Shrew

On Dec.19th, there had been a drama “The Taming of the Shrew” on the third floor of our school's cafeteria. It was performed by our school's drama club. I went to see it with my friends after supper. The reason why I came to see this drama was that I like William Shakespeare’s works. The actors and actresses are very professional. They did as well as the actors in the Hollywood. The main characters are Katharina (by Cherry), and Petruchio (by Fan). I know them and Cherry is one of the basketball team mates of me.

The plot is interesting. In the beginning, there is a drunk man Sly has a dream in an inn. His dream is very strange and he meets a lord and his pages that intend to play a trick on him. They perform a play for him and it’s about an intelligent, but grumpy shrew, Katharina, unwillingly married a nobleman, Petruchio. Afterwards, Petruchio “tamed” his wife into an obedient and gentle woman.

It is very funny and many people laughed while they were watching the play. I was impressed by their acting. They must have received many awards if they are famous actors and actresses. Cherry had the best acting. Katharina was a very difficult character to act because she changes dramatically in this story. The whole characteristics of her are opposite. Cherry acted differently.

The whole scenery was great, too. They must spend a lot of time on it. They switched the lights into many colors for the different scene of the drama. I think it was worth seeing because I learnt a lot of things from it. It helped us to know more about Shakespeare so that we won’t have too many cultural problems when we go abroad in the future. Anyway, I was surprised that we students could set up such an amazing show.