The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011)

2011-06-27 United Kingdom 135 Min. PG-13
5.7 3 votes

Overview

Synopsis by theflixtor - 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.

Cast

Christopher Benjamin is Sir John Falstaff
Sir John Falstaff
Serena Evans is Mistress Page
Mistress Page
Andrew Havill is Master Ford
Master Ford
Gerard McCarthy is Master Fenton
Master Fenton
Sarah Woodward is Mistress Ford
Mistress Ford
Nathan Amzi is Peter Simple
Peter Simple
William Belchambers is Master Slender
Master Slender
Philip Bird is Dr. Caius
Dr. Caius
Ceri-lyn Cissone is Anne Page
Barnaby Edwards is John Rugby
John Rugby
Peter Gale is Justice Shallow
Justice Shallow