Cedarville’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’ Takes Shakespeare to the 1950s

Cedarville's theatre program has modernized Shakespeare’s comedic love story, “The Taming of the Shrew.” It is showing Oct. 3-13. Professor and show director Matt Moore has changed the setting from a city-state in Italy during the Italian Renaissance to Little Italy in the 1950s and added a singing group known as the “Shrew Crew” to help propel the story along. “They (the Shrew Crew) are the ones who really help us feel the 1950s because of the music,” Moore said. “The six ...