Who: Amway Shakespeare Opportunity (2009 Inaugural Season) Taking Shakespeare To The Next Level. 

What: Twitter of the Shrew - adapted for Twitter by @BrianFeldman from the classic comedy attributed to William 

Shakespeare, with additional material by @irenelpynn, is a Twitter adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew 

(1590-1594). Spanning 19 Twitter accounts and presented over 12 days (one scene daily), Twitter of the Shrew 

attempts to live up to Shakespeare’s “Brevity is the soul of wit” proverb, by condensing the play’s iambic pentameter 

dialogue down to updates of 140 characters or less. “It’s a great idea!,” says Austin Tichenor of The Reduced 

Shakespeare Company (@reduced). For those who don’t yet exist in the Twitterverse, Twitter is that crazy-popular, 

social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise 

known as tweets). Twitter of the Shrew is not sanctioned, endorsed or sponsored by Twitter, Inc. 

When: 14 - 25 February 2009 (GMT-5): One Scene Daily 

Where: http://twitter.com/AmwayShakes and 19 additional Twitter of the Shrew character accounts: 

 ShrewKate / Katherine Minola / http://twitter.com/ShrewKate 

 PetruccioV / Petruccio / http://twitter.com/PetruccioV 

 Grumio / Grumio / http://twitter.com/Grumio 

 VeronaCurtis / Curtis / http://twitter.com/VeronaCurtis 

 Hdasher / Haberdasher / http://twitter.com/Hdasher 

 Tailor4Petruc / Petruccio's Tailor / http://twitter.com/Tailor4Petruc 

 BiancaMinola / Bianca Minola / http://twitter.com/BiancaMinola 

 BaptistaMinola / Baptista Minola / http://twitter.com/BaptistaMinola 

 Lucenti0 / Lucentio / http://twitter.com/Lucenti0 

 Cambi0 / Cambio / http://twitter.com/Cambi0 

 Trani0 / Tranio / http://twitter.com/Trani0 

 Biondell0 / Biondello / http://twitter.com/Biondell0 

 MrVincentio / Vincentio / http://twitter.com/MrVincentio 

 The_Pedant / The Pedant / http://twitter.com/The_Pedant 

 Hortensio / Hortensio / http://twitter.com/Hortensio 

 LitioH / Litio / http://twitter.com/LitioH 

 PaduaWidow / The Widow of Padua / http://twitter.com/PaduaWidow 

 OldGremio / Gremio / http://twitter.com/OldGremio 

 UPadua / University of Padua / http://twitter.com/UPadua 

To best experience Twitter of the Shrew in real time, be sure to follow each of the character accounts, and set device 

updates ‘On’ to receive all #tots updates via SMS (only advised for those with unlimited messaging). All dialogue will 

RT @AmwayShakes. 

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=54668665562 

Amway Shakespeare Opportunity (Brian Feldman, Artistic Director) will never do traditional Shakespeare. 

Upcoming productions include The Shakespeariment (24 Apr 2009) and, you just knew this was coming, The Twitter 

of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (May 2009). http://twitter.com/AmwayShakes