The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011)
Overview
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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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 0.341 |
Directed By
Christopher Luscombe
Crew
Christopher Luscombe
William Shakespeare
Nigel Hess
Charlotte Bevan
Janet Bird
TOP CAST
Christopher Benjamin
Sir John Falstaff
Serena Evans
Mistress Page
Andrew Havill
Master Ford
Gerard McCarthy
Master Fenton
Sarah Woodward
Mistress Ford
Nathan Amzi
Peter Simple
Gareth Armstrong
Evans
William Belchambers
Master Slender
Philip Bird
Dr. Caius
Ceri-lyn Cissone
Anne Page
Barnaby Edwards
John Rugby
Peter Gale
Justice Shallow
Michael Garner
Master Page
Gregory Gudgeon
Nym
Paul Woodson
Pistol
Sue Wallace
Mistress Quickly
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