The Merry Wives of Windsor
The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.
Description: The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.
Genres: Comedy
Budget: $0 | Revenue : $0
Runtime: 135 minutes
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Christopher Benjamin
Played Sir John Falstaff
Serena Evans
Played Mistress Page
Andrew Havill
Played Master Ford
Gerard McCarthy
Played Master Fenton
Sarah Woodward
Played Mistress Ford
Nathan Amzi
Played Peter Simple
Gareth Armstrong
Played Evans
William Belchambers
Played Master Slender
Philip Bird
Played Dr. Caius
Ceri-lyn Cissone
Played Anne Page
Barnaby Edwards
Played John Rugby
Peter Gale
Played Justice Shallow
Michael Garner
Played Master Page
Gregory Gudgeon
Played Nym
Paul Woodson
Played Pistol
Sue Wallace
Played Mistress Quickly
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