audio: Taming of the Shrew - Peter O'Toole and Siân Phillips

A few pictures added of the younger Peter O'Toole and Sian Phillips to the audio from an LP album, released in 1962.

two excerpts, starts with Petruchio's first meeting with Kate, Act II, scene 2, line 154 (Hortensio's "And with that word she struck me on the head") and continues through to Petruchio and Kate's exit.

Then the dinner scene (Act 4, scene), where Petruchio makes sure a tired Kate doesn't eat and he lays out his plan: "Thus have I politicly begun my reign"...unfortunately, some cuts of the text..

the superb Siân Phillips is best known for her role from TV as Livia as in "I Claudius", a portrait of Livia described by wiki as "as a thoroughly wicked, scheming political mastermind" given to poisoning.

go here to see John Cleese perform this scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2NnhBNq6h8

go here to see Marc Singer perform this scene in a very comic style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsL8K9rtQoc

Petruchio - Peter O'Toole
Katherina - Siân Phillips
Hortensio - Richard Gale
Baptista - Norman Tyrrell
Grumio - Henry Woolf
Curtis - Peter Birrel

from "Living Shakespeare" LP STS-11A/12A
directed by John Hale, sound effects by Desmond Leslie

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[bristolstomp]

is the entire play available in any format?

[ShakespeareAndMore]

I got this clip off an LP collection of Shakespeare plays, each play having one LP of edited excerpts. I believe it is the only available version of this production in any media.

[ThingsWeSaidToday]

my god it's that same voice, the one that taught me the meaning of the word "attractive". Peter O'Toole is without a doubt the greatest actor of all time.

[AdArmand]

He's the most endearing genius of them all!

[Fred420ist]

Thumbs up if you stayed and didn't need an actual video...

[PrinceMishka]

@bristolstomp

there is a super famous (really good) 1967 version available online. I found it at BTJUNKIE.ORG which is a torrent site. Outside of torrents, you might want to check out hulu or one of those sites or netflix probably has the 1967 version.

[tyrrath]

This play delayed the cause of women's liberation by at least a century.

[lovetheatre100]

I've learnt one thing never sit on the front row of the round theatre when watching a shakespeare play you get spit on by the actors, cheap seats.

[OperaJH]

Brighteyes - Peter O'Toole is ranked among the icons like Sir Lawrence Olivier; he is one of the greatest actors to ever cross the English stage. Listen to voice, enunciation, timbre, timing, emotion and presentation - how can any young actor today even come close? Peter O'Toole has alway been real., his own man. That he picks all sorts of movies is the desire of his older years, but each little nothing movie he is in, becomes elevated because of him. Very , very few actors can claim that.

[Brighteyes1ful]

One man i've never liked is pete o'toole a drunk and his acting leaves alot to be desired i'm sure that there are better actors??????????

[bookkeeper57]

We saw Burton and Taylor do this, and they were great. But I would love to watch these two together in a comedy like this one.