Director • Actor

Paige Rogers

"Rogers was made to play this role. She's bombastic and feisty and everything a great Kate should be. The scene in which she tortures her sister with a pair of hair straightening tongs is viciously funny. But she's never over-bearing. Her face shows signs that she's thinking everything through. It takes her a while to register Petruchio's various mad ramblings. You can see the character processing them carefully, trying to understand if what she's heard is really true. When it comes to delivering the final, difficult speech, we're as thrown into turmoil as she is. Rogers delivers those final awkward lines as if she means them. There's empathy behind her voice. She seems to have found some kind of respect for her husband. And yet we don't for a minute believe that she has become a good, little wife. There's enough animation in her smile and eyes to suggest that there might be more to this woman than we think. And in fact there is: If we recall the opening, she's a lord."

-Chloe Veltman

SF Weekly

"It's a production of The Taming of the Shrew unlike any other!"
-SF Station

"High-energy, cleverly updated"
​-Rob Avila
SF Bay Gurdian

The Taming of the Shrew - The cutting Ball Theater

"It's ironic that such an uber-liberal city as San Francisco should be the site of one of

the most brazen and brilliant 

versions of Shakespeare's uber-un-politically-correct comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, I've seen to date. The Cutting Ball's production at The Magic Theatre directed by Rob Melrose and starring Paige Rogers and David Sinaiko as confrontational spouses Katerina and Petruchio, not only meets Shakespeare's problematic comedy head-on with vicious humor but makes it disarmingly contemporary -- and local.  
-Chloe Veltman
SF Weekly