The Bard Shrew reduces the play to a Punch and Judy show with Kate and Petruchio doing more roughhousing than wooing. Kate punches Petruchio in the jaw and knocks him to the ground. He grabs her from behind, and she flips him over her back. Kate bites Petruchio's hand, and later, he bites her toe. There is much struggling on the floor and bending of knees into awkward positions.
Nothing in the production moves very far beyond farce. Everyone on stage sighs whenever Bianca is mentioned, and the entire cast leans whenever anyone says "Pisa".
Lucentio makes an unsuccessful attempt to quote a Shakespearean sonnet, and Petruchio and Hortensio act as though they are afraid of being struck by lightning when the former mentions thunderclouds and the latter mentions Katherina Minola.
The costumes and the acting are equally garish.