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Frenetic and animated, the shrew scurries down corridors chasing echoes
of dormant potential, eyes alight on sparkling splinters of stories, intent on catching the glinting shards from the buds of promise... 


Untamed Shrew is the home of new work by writer and director Victoria Grainger, inspired by great works, stories, incidents and happenings.     Untamed Shrew aims to be involving, evolving, revolving, absorbing, funny, runny, emotional, notional, meaningful, visual, get-u-in-a-tizual, thought-provoking, heart-aching, heart-breaking well-crafted, well-acted, well-designed, well-alligned theatre. (Breathe)                                                                                                                                    Untamed Shrew's latest production 'Like a Fountain Troubled ~ The Tale of a Piece of Mind' focuses on the practise of private home-counselling, and focuses on two characters who have chosen to place themselves together, one looking for 'help' and guidance, the other in the guise of being able to give it.  'Like A Fountain Troubled' comes from a speech spoken by the tamed shrew of Shakespeare's invention in 'Taming of the Shrew' ~  'A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty, And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty will deign to sip or touch one drop of it' .             Here, 'A Fountain Troubled' is the name of 'transcendental' therapist Dot's private, home-counselling agency, promoting a mis-guided client-centred, non-directive approach to ironing out the creases of 'troubled' personalities.  During the course of an on-stage couselling session, we witness the intimately removed art of paying a stranger to listen.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                  A feast for the eyes and a journey for the heart and mind is the hallmark of Untamed Shrew Productions