Petruchio

Lucencio, son to Vincencio, in love with Bianca.

Read by M.B. Petruccio, a gentleman of Verona, suitor to Caterina.

Read by Bologna

Times.

Biondeldo.

Read by Matthew Ward.

Servants to Petruccio.

Grumio.

I am prepared to deliver on short notice anyone of a large number of Shakespearean parts.

Othello, Romeo, the Romeo, Martin the Weaver, King Henry IV, V, VI, Petruchio, oh,

and Henry VIII.

I am reasonably familiar with the characters of Shakespeare, sir.

And there's huge problems with that play in this day and age.

But in Shakespeare's day, it was like, hey! So there's a scene where her husband, Petruchio's servant, Grumio, offers her all this series of foods, such as neatsfoot and tripe, and culminates in beef and mustard.

And every time he offers her something, she's like, oh, great, I'll eat that.

And then he goes, oh, no, but you can't eat that because it's going to make you more choleric.

It produced Colored Museum.

It had Raúl Juliá playing Petruchio way before The Public existed.

It was a traveling theater in every neighborhood, particularly the Bronx doing Shakespeare.

You know? Uh, Martin Sheen played Hamlet with a Puerto Rican accent." And he said, "Well, I meant administration." And I said, "Okay, I think that's an important distinction." Do you know? And I was so upset with the way that play was produced on Broadway, Andrew.

Indeed.

Perhaps you may meet a Petruchio, gentle Katherine, yet.

But no gentle Katherine will he find me, believe it.

Katherine.

Brian played the Duke of Burgundy opposite Laurence Olivier's King Lear, and later played the title role in a National Theatre production that toured internationally.

For the Royal Shakespeare Company, he played Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and Titus in Titus Andronicus.

He's won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, the BAFTAs, the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Lucille Lortel, and the Olivier Awards, among many others.

Brian is currently starring as Johann Sebastian Bach in The Score, directed by Trevor Nunn at the Shakespeare Theatre Company here in Washington, DC.