The Merry Wives of Windsor (2010)
Featuring many characters from Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Shakespeare’s brilliantly constructed farce, which gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom, burst onto the Globe Theatre stage in 2010.
'This is the short and the long of it'
Featuring many characters from Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Shakespeare’s brilliantly constructed farce, which gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom, burst onto the Globe Theatre stage in 2010.
Synopsis
Imagining that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page have each fallen for him, the fat knight Sir John Falstaff decides to seduce them both, as much for their husbands’ money as for their personal charms. Wise to the old rogue’s tricks, the women turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket.
Cast
Nathan Amzi
SIMPLE
Gareth Armstrong
EVANS
William Belchambers
SLENDER
Christopher Benjamin
FALSTAFF
Philip Bird
DR. CAIUS
Serena Evans
MISTRESS PAGE
Peter Gale
SHALLOW
Michael Garner
PAGE
Gregory Gudgeon
NYM
Andrew Havill
FORD
Jonty Stephens
HOST
Sue Wallace
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Paul Woodson
PISTOL
Sarah Woodward
MISTRESS FORD
Gerard McCarthy
FENTON
Ceri-Lyn Cissone
ANNE PAGE
Barnaby Edwards
RUGBY
Richard Linell
ROBIN
Edward Holtom
ROBIN
Creatives
Christopher Luscombe
DIRECTOR
Janet Bird
DESIGNER
Nigel Hess
COMPOSER
Jenny Arnold
CHOREOGRAPHER
Robin Lough
DIRECTOR FOR THE SCREEN
William Lyons
MUSICAL DIRECTOR