{"id":26798,"date":"2025-05-27T20:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/lavastus\/torksa-taltsutus\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:53:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:53:53","slug":"the-taming-of-the-shrew","status":"publish","type":"lavastus","link":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/lavastus\/the-taming-of-the-shrew\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taming of the Shrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-item\">\n<p><strong>\u201cFor some reason I think you awfully lovely, though your heart is defiant.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Taming of the Shrew\u201d was one of William Shakespeare\u2019s first plays and in all likelihood just another commissioned work for a young playwright just beginning his career. The original play, amusing the audiences with <\/em><em>simple tricks and teeming with innuendos, is a story about how a woman should know her place. And yet, on the skeleton reflecting his contemporary values, Shakespeare has built a somewhat more multidimensional story that also encompasses greater and purer human feelings, although they are still ultimately overshadowed by the proclamation of rigid gender roles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our \u201cTaming of the Shrew\u201d is first and foremost a story of two young people faced with a false and deceitful world, where they have both turned into marginal figures in a way. Meeting each other changes both of their lives. The story is therefore at once old and new \u2013 what keeps the old tales alive, after all, is the ability of each new era to reinterpret them.<\/em><br \/>\nRein Raud<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taming of the Shrew\u201d is staged by Finnish actor-director Merja P\u00f6yh\u00f6nen, who uses in her work means of puppet, object and visual theatre, combining classical acting with modern theatrical language. \u201cThe Taming of the Shrew\u201d is her fourth interpretation of Shakespeare\u2019s plays. The new text adaptation for P\u00f6yh\u00f6nen\u2019s production is created by Rein Raud.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p><strong>Merja P\u00f6yh\u00f6nen<\/strong> (b. 1980) is a Finnish puppeteer. She graduated from puppetry department of Turku University of Applied Sciences\u00a0in\u00a02005 and has studied physical theater in \u00c9cole Internationale de Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Jacques Lecoq, Paris. For the last ten years P\u00f6yh\u00f6nen has been working as a freelancer director and performer being involved in the shows that have made puppetry art\u00a0widely\u00a0known in Finland. She has directed shows for both adults and children often mixing puppets and other means of expression.\u00a0Her most known work\u00a0is the direction of the Shakespeare trilogy (The Tempest 2013, Romeo &amp; Juliet 2015, Princess Hamlet 2017)\u00a0that\u00a0includes two the biggest professional puppet theater shows made in Finland. She has been awarded by Finnish Unima (Puppetry award of the year 2014) and by The Finnish Critics&#8217; Assotiation (Critics Spurs &#8211; Years&#8217; best artistic breakthrough 2011) and Finnish National Council&#8217;s State Prize (2017) as part of the collaborative puppetry network Aura of Puppets for groundbreaking work for Finnish contemporary puppetry. She is also a founding member of puppetry group Dirty Duckling. T\u00f5rksa Taltsutus is her second direction abroad, Y\u00d6 &#8211; Geheimnisse der Nacht got it&#8217;s premiere in\u00a0February 2019 in\u00a0Theater Chemnitz, Germany.<\/p>\n<p><em>The production is supported by the Finnish Institute in Estonia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-item\">\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy by William Shakespeare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43536,"menu_order":142,"template":"","tags":[321,336],"sihtgrupp":[95,96],"class_list":["post-26798","lavastus","type-lavastus","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arhiiv-en","tag-archive-en","sihtgrupp-youth","sihtgrupp-adult"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lavastus\/26798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lavastus"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lavastus"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lavastus\/26798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41426,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lavastus\/26798\/revisions\/41426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26798"},{"taxonomy":"sihtgrupp","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sihtgrupp?post=26798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}