Shakespeare Globe

The Merry Wives of Windsor

by William Shakespeare
A revival of the 2008 hit

14 August – 2 October
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Reviews from 2008

***** 'Christopher Luscombe’s production brims with humanity, ingenuity and irresistible charm and boasts a magnificent Falstaff in Christopher Benjamin... Serena Evans and Sarah Woodward make one of the funniest double acts I have ever seen on the stage... Not just theatre but the capital at its very best' Sunday Telegraph

***** 'Sparkling… Christopher Benjamin gives a masterful performance… Andrew Havill is an excellent Ford… The Globe at its best' The Sunday Times

**** 'The best and freshest work I've seen at the Globe... Merriness unbridled' Evening Standard

**** 'A wonderfully warming comedy, stuffed to bursting with belly laughs' The Times

**** 'The Globe has a hit on its hands' The Guardian

**** 'Highly entertaining... Deliciously inventive' The Independent

**** 'Christopher Benjamin makes a perfect Falstaff' Daily Mail

**** 'Christopher Luscombe’s staging of Shakespeare’s lightest comedy has pace, polish, gorgeous Elizabethan costumes and some rollicking performances' Mail on Sunday

'The feel-good hit of the summer... Christopher Luscombe directs a sunny, funny and palpably affectionate production, cleverly designed by Janet Bird' Daily Telegraph

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.

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, returns to the Globe after delighting audiences in 2008.

This production will employ Renaissance costumes and settings.

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