The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011)
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.
Director: Christopher Luscombe
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Christopher Benjamin as Sir John Falstaff |
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Serena Evans as Mistress Page |
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Andrew Havill as Master Ford |
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Gerard McCarthy as Master Fenton |
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Sarah Woodward as Mistress Ford |
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Nathan Amzi as Peter Simple |
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Gareth Armstrong as Evans |
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William Belchambers as Master Slender |
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Philip Bird as Dr. Caius |
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Ceri-lyn Cissone as Anne Page |
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Barnaby Edwards as John Rugby |
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Peter Gale as Justice Shallow |
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Michael Garner as Master Page |
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Gregory Gudgeon as Nym |
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Paul Woodson as Pistol |
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Sue Wallace as Mistress Quickly |
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Edward Holtom as Robin |
| Directing | Christopher Luscombe | Director |
| Writing | William Shakespeare | Author |
| Sound | Nigel Hess | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Charlotte Bevan | Casting |
| Art | Janet Bird | Set Designer |
