Photograph by Manuel Harlan.
The redoubtable merry wives are played as a pair of formidable Essex girls who fit Shakespeare’s bawdy comedy wonderfully well and delighted the audience. David Troughton’s, as ‘the fat knight’, Sir John Falstaff, attempts to seduce the pair which results in his being consigned to a noisome wheelie bin, a change in stage direction that adds hugely to the general hilarity.
The sets , music and costumes complement the action creating an amusing amalgam of both Elizabethan eras where padded pinstripe doublets and faux leopard skin vie for comic effect with an unmissable cod piece.
A rumbustious, bawdy comedy that gives scope to the actors abilities to ad lib. A wonderful entertainment. You just have to be there!
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