The Merry Wives of Windsor

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Christopher Benjamin

Sir John Falstaff

Age : 89 | Popularity : 35%

Serena Evans

Mistress Page

Age : N/A | Popularity : 11%

Andrew Havill

Master Ford

Age : N/A | Popularity : 44%

Gerard McCarthy

Master Fenton

Age : N/A | Popularity : 15%

Sarah Woodward

Mistress Ford

Age : 61 | Popularity : 30%

Nathan Amzi

Peter Simple

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Gareth Armstrong

Evans

Age : N/A | Popularity : 20%

William Belchambers

Master Slender

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Christopher Luscombe
Writing	Author	William Shakespeare
Sound	Original Music Composer	Nigel Hess
Production	Casting	Charlotte Bevan
Art	Set Designer	Janet Bird
Department	Role	Name

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