Belligerent Sexual Tension/Theatre
Examples of Belligerent Sexual Tension in Theatre include:
- Older Than Steam: The classical Western theatre example is Beatrice and Benedick from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Don't pretend you didn't see that coming.
- Some productions of The Taming of the Shrew play Katherine and Petruchio this way.
- The musical Anne & Gilbert, inspired by Anne of Green Gables makes the title pair into this.
- Both Glinda/Fiyero and Elphaba/Fiyero in Wicked have elements of this, even though Fiyero is only a very light Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Even stronger with Elphaba and Glinda
- The song "What is This Feeling" is this trope.
- Even stronger with Elphaba and Glinda
- Betty/Rizzo and Kenickie from Grease (both musical and film), doubling as the Beta Couple to Sandy and Danny.
- Fred and Lilli in Kiss Me Kate. They're also playing Katharine and Petruchio in a musical The Taming of the Shrew.
- Amalia and Georg in She Loves Me — at least in person.
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