I wish I had a Shakespeare production company so I could stage that BDSM performance of TAMING OF THE SHREW I want so badly
It would be the absolute BEST way to stage TAMING. Maybe the only way that really works in this day and age?
BDSM is all about theater for 2. Even when nobody's watching you, which is often, you're playing a role that doesn't look the same as normal life.
And TAMING is all about performance! You could keep it at the outermost layer, the framing story of TAMING. Have the whole thing take place inside a BDSM club or something. Heighten the unreality - remind the audience of a show within a show.
Or get more thematic - Kate and Petruchio are both performing all the time. Performing as jerks, trying to be unlovable and scare people away. It would be really powerful to show them both as understanding the performance of the other, and then them joining to make it a performance of 2 against everyone else.
You could use a wide range of BDSM activities, too - everything from light spanking, to a fetish club, to lifestyle BDSM would work!
If you want something done right, do it yourself - but I don't have a theater company, so I can't!
