The Taming of the Shrew (1973 film)

The Taming of the Shrew is a 1973 Australian TV screening of the Old Tote production of the play by William Shakespeare, relocated to an unnamed town in New South Wales at the turn of the twentieth century.

Cast

 * John Bell as Petruchio
 * Carole McCready as Bianca
 * Ron Haddrick as Baptista
 * John Gaden
 * Melissa Jaffer as Widow
 * Martin Vaughan
 * Robyn Nevin as Barmaid
 * Tom Farley
 * Gil Tucker
 * Edmund Falzon
 * Michael Rolfe
 * John Walton
 * Drew Forsythe

Production
The ABC announced it in January 1973. It was one of several stage productions recreated by the ABC for television including Hamlet.

Reception
The Age wrote "why Taming had to be cheekily rewritten and rendered down into ill-tasting Strinespeare escaped this critic's understanding."