'that wench is stark mad or wonderful froward'
Taming of the Shrew ~ Act I . Scene I William Shakespeare
The idea of being perceived as 'stark mad', or 'froward'; i.e considered 'wonderfully' disobedient and stubbornly contrary is a perception gladly welcomed at Untamed Shrew Productions, founded in 2006 to produce new scripts and stories based in fact, explored through fiction.
Victoria Grainger, Writer for Untamed Shrew Productions ~ Master of Arts in Shakespeare and Theatre, Bachelor of Arts in Literature, Certified Diplomas in Humanities and Social Science
Victoria Grainger is a Birmingham writer, born and raised in the 'Tolkien country' of Hall Green. She writes and researches with a classical awareness, but with a distinctive, contemporary voice, working on stage plays, screen writing, and prose writing. She was awarded the Jack Kerouac online writing competition for her prose short in 2009.
She worked for Stafford's Heart Productions for playwright Frank Bramwell for four years as a director and script-editor, where plays were produced at The Zoo venue and Rocket de marco Roxy venue for the Edinburgh Festival, The Old Pauper's Pit and the Old Club House venues at the Buxton Festival, and the Crescent Theatre Birmingham for the Birmingham Festival. Untamed Shrew Productions have had shows performed at The Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham, with previews at the British Legion in Shirley, West Midlands, the Westbury Theatre in Edmonton in Canada as part of the Edmonton Festival, and will be producing Billy Fisher for initial dates in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
"Good drama should always wound us and leave us winded emotionally. I don't want to feel polite when I'm writing, and I don't think we should ever feel polite when we're in the theatre or watching drama...Satiated, elated, angry, or ecstatic anything and everything else in bewteen. But never polite".
Grainger is a familiar voice on the radio having worked as a broadcaster for many years, producing travel news for radio stations across the UK including BBC radio and national stations such as TalkSport. Her years on the radio can be seen as influential in her award-winning Kerouac piece, in which her prose talks about her role as 'a voice' and life 'On the Roads' - a tie in with the nature of the competition which was a celebration of Kerouac's seminal novel 'On the Road'.