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.
• 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.