Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew is an ambiguous character, and this is what makes her fascinating: she is unpleasant, uncompromising, foul-mouthed and fundamentalist, some even say she is mad. But she is free. Adolescent and romantic, she is anything but shrewish: she dreams of a world where people marry for love.

But in Pisa della Bisbetica, all the protagonists are ambiguous and tainted with guilt. In a deeply male-dominated society, a tamed Katherina was a great comic character: La Bisbetica was an uplifting comedy with a happy ending, the comedy of the “tamed savage”.

Here, on the other side of the stage, we can only pretend to be happy.

With Amanda Sandrelli.