The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011)


  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 2011-06-27
  • User Rating: 5.7/10 from 3 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 15min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Shakespeare's Globe
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Christopher Luscombe
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Summary

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.

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  • Christopher Benjamin

    as Sir John Falstaff
  • Serena Evans

    as Mistress Page
  • Andrew Havill

    as Master Ford
  • Gerard McCarthy

    as Master Fenton
  • Sarah Woodward

    as Mistress Ford
  • Nathan Amzi

    as Peter Simple
  • Gareth Armstrong

    as Evans
  • William Belchambers

    as Master Slender
  • Philip Bird

    as Dr. Caius
  • Ceri-lyn Cissone

    as Anne Page
  • Barnaby Edwards

    as John Rugby
  • Peter Gale

    as Justice Shallow
  • Michael Garner

    as Master Page
  • Gregory Gudgeon

    as Nym
  • Paul Woodson

    as Pistol
  • Sue Wallace

    as Mistress Quickly
Directing Christopher Luscombe Director
Writing William Shakespeare Author
Sound Nigel Hess Original Music Composer
Production Charlotte Bevan Casting
Art Janet Bird Set Designer

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