The Hudson Shakespeare Company returns to Stratford Library, 2203 Main Street, for its 26th season of touring summerShakespeare on Saturday, July 1 @2pm with a retro spin on Shakespeare’s classic war of the sexes romp – “Taming ofthe Shrew”. The show is being performed in their outdoor amphitheater and admission is free.

The action is moved from the 1590s to 1960s Italy and reintroduces the characters in this new period and foreign setting taking influences from Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” and AMC’s “Mad Men”. Katherina or Kate (London Griffith) is a well to do young woman who has very different views of the moronic men her mother (Sharon Cacciabaudo) thinks are good potential husbands for both her and Kate’s conniving sister Bianca (Hannah Coffey).