The Taming of the Shrew, Phyllida Lloyd, in New York

Can't say this sounds all that great to me, I wonder how much will be cut and what the setting will be?

Well, it initially does sound like a rehash of the all-female Shrew Phyllida Lloyd already directed for the Globe starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio, also open-air Shakespeare audiences tend to be a little less forgiving of innovation, so I'd imagine that - male actors aside - it's very likely to be a pretty traditional production.

I call it "looking at the available clues and making an educated guess". We'll find out in summer, when I'll either graciously concede I was wrong or less graciously await your apology.

You say that like those two ideas can't possibly exist alongside each other. I'm predicting standard period costuming the whole way (as opposed to, say, prison fatigues ), and though I'm not sure whether I think they're going to play the ending for laughter or horror, there'll certainly be a ton of humour before they get there (and whichever way they take the ending could be claimed as being bold, lord knows I've seen several productions for each approach).