Richard Monette's rollicking Stratford treatment is set in a colourful Italy of the 1950's. Colm Feore depicts Petruchio as a swaggering leather-jacketed street bandit who roars up to marry Kate (Goldie Semple) on a sporty Lambretta. As raucous and rousing as an Italian wine festival, Shakespeare's favorite battle of the sexes has turned into a party where wits and willpower do contest, but the final victore is the belly-laugh. Produced and directed for CBC-TV by Norman Campbell.