Hip-Hop Retelling of TAMING OF THE SHREW Now Playing at Arena Stage @ Theater

Slap That Bitch- love the title or hate it? Come see ...Slap That Bitch, a hip-hop retelling of The Taming Of The Shrew.

written by Francesca Sanders
directed by Kerry E. Sorci

February 18- March 20, 2010
Thursday thru Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 2pm
Arena Stage @ Theater!Theatre! 3430 SE Belmont
Cost: $18 Gen. Adm., $15 Student/Senior/Groups of 10+
Thursday Nights are Pay-What-You-Can $5 and higher

Tickets can be purchased:
Online by clicking here.
By phone at 503-235-FUSE (3873)
In person through the PDXTicket Network box office at the Hollywood Theater on Sandy Blvd.

Why do a show called Slap That Bitch? After all, it would be much better to call it "The Taming of the Darling Woman?" Or would it?

If you're a woman, do you like the thought that you need to be "tamed?" Most would answer "No." Yet that's exactly what Shakespeare set out to do.

But isn't he a lofty genius who writes about historical figures? Didn't he write in more gentlemanly and courteous times? Surely he can't have meant to demean women by calling them shrews, and of course, he didn't mean that the female gender should be broKen Down like an old gray mare. And yet, I believe he did.

So if Shakespeare chose a provocative, polarizing title, shouldn't Fuse Ensemble Theatre do the same? Shouldn't we question the roles of men and women in today's society and do so as long and as hard as our inspiration did?

Our play, like Shakespeare's is a comedy. A chance for us to explore, through laughter, just how we behave in matters of the heart. And our play, like Shakespeare's pokes fun at how human we all are when it comes to love.

Written by Portland playwright (and Fuse Ensemble Member) Francesca Sanders, Slap That Bitch is a comedy about men, women and the roles we all play.

Directed by Fuse Artistic Director: Kerry E. Sorci

Cast:
Sally - Sara Fay Goldman
Christopher Sly - Bill Hoznagel
Bobo - Ithica Tell
Lil Big - Rodney Mason
Charmain - AdriAnne Gunn
Colette - Shoshana Maxwell
Luke - Ed Lyons
Tran - Daniel Goodman
Mr. Minola - Brian Joines
Gremio - Tony Cull
Gardner - Vinnie Duyck
Peter - James Dixon
Design Team & Crew:
Stage Management: Echo Brooks
Production Manager: Mike Cino
Set Design: Deanna Zibello
Composer/Sound Design: Cecil Averett
Lighting & Projection Design: Jen Corman Greene
Costume Design: Marychris Mass
House Management: Sara McWilliams
Hip-Hop Collaborator: Huy Pham
Video Artist-Editor: Nick Reiber
Video Artist-Director: Sebastian Jamarillo

Photo: Annaliese Moyer, Stage Right Photo

 

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