your name is Kasia
just Kasia

“The Taming of the Shrew” directed by Ewa Platt is far from a triumph of the subdued woman or a farce about social conventions. Shakespeare’s text is filtered here through the lens of contemporary experiences of violence – violence that does not need physical force to take control of a person and carve out a comfortable place in our everyday lives. It is a story about living within mechanisms of oppression that do not operate loudly, yet act with devastating effectiveness.

After leaving her family home, Katarzyna finds herself in the apartment of Petrukio – a man who gradually strips her of autonomy, cuts her off from the world, and destroys her through manipulation, financial dependence, and emotional blackmail.

This performance does not reconstruct Shakespeare’s classic comedy but instead uses its framework to speak about domestic violence in its silent, overlooked dimension – justified, laughed off, and silenced. “The Taming of the Shrew” here becomes a story of harm that finds no listener, of love that turns into a tool of domination, and of a world that teaches us how not to hear.

The performance was developed in our theatre as a “work in progress” within the framework of the Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk.