Guildford Shakespeare Company
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"With Merry Wives, Shakespeare effectively invented the sitcom" The Independent
Shakespeare’s only comedy to be set in England, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a delicious confection of feel-good fun and has inspired classic sitcoms from Fawlty Towers to The Good Life to The Vicar of Dibley.
The irrepressible Sir John Falstaff is in love (or is that lust?) with two respectable suburban ladies, and their husband’s money. Unbeknown to him, the two merry wives hatch a plan to teach the old rogue, and their frantic husbands, a thoroughly good lesson.
Staged at the enchanting Stoke Park Model Railway on London Road, Caroline Devlin (Merry Wives 2012, The Winter’s Tale, Othello) directs a 1970s inspired show, complete with a toe-tapping soundtrack, bell-bottom slacks, velour shirts, and who knows, a British Rail train might actually turn up on time!
Cast to be announced later in the Spring.
We last staged Merry Wives in Golden Jubilee Year 2012, with a 1950s 'new Elizabethans' settings. "You could not have a more exhilarating, fun-filled evening" British Theatre Guide
13 - 27 July 2019
Stoke Park Railway, Burchatts Farm entrance, London Road
Tuesdays - Sundays
Evenings 7.30pm | Sat Mats 2.30pm | Sundays 4pm
No Performances Mondays
Running Time approx. 2 hrs 30 mins (including interval)
TICKETS
General Booking 30 April 10am
Priority Booking 23 April 10am
Full £26 | Concessions £23 | Under 16s £16.50
Family £78 | Student standby £15
Previews £18 (all adult tickets)
Schools £15 per pupil Contact Education
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