The Taming of the Shrew Director's Playbook - Tapa blanda

The Bandanna Shakespeare Playbook series books, including The Taming of the Shrew Director's Playbook, is designed to help a director and/or assistant director to keep track of all the details in every department in a production of a Shakespeare play. That includes a Producer responsible for overseeing a budget, publicity, advertising, the playbill design and printing, hiring a hall if necessary; the Pre-Production departments for Set Design and for Wardrobe or costuming, which is especially important in this play, with several characters playing double roles in order to win affection or escape detection. Stage Management is also considered, for sound, lights, curtains, shuffling the sets around between scenes. And, of course, the directorial duties of coaching, auditioning, rehearsing the actors so that the cast gets a sense of being on a team. Paul Freeman, of the USSB Theater Group, has said about this series: "A Producer's dream. Just add actors."