Merry Wives of Windsor, The

Synopsis: Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1996 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Directed by Ian Judge with Leslie Phillips as Falstaff.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 9 Jan 1997
Duration: 155 mins

Notes: A second recording was made at the Barbican 5 February 1998.
General: The costuming was mainly Elizabethan with some Edwardian touches.

Schoolboys were played by Patrick Blinkhorne, Liam Connors, Hamish Ferguson, Richard Gale, Matthew Lloyd, Tom Newton, John Partridge, Thomas Rigby, Monroe Robertson, Patrick Shier, Justyn Luke Towler, Jack Wharton and Thomas Yeomans.
History: Press night 19 December 1996.
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: Jackson, Russell. Shakespeare Quarterly 50 (1999), pp185-205 (esp. p188).

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

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