Merry Wives of Windsor
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 28, 2010
Closed Nov 7, 2010
Opened Oct 28, 2010
Closed Nov 7, 2010
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Running Time:
2hr. 45min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 45min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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http://www.pace.edu/culture
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
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 comically supernatural finale to a gutsy, colloquial play bustling with vivid characters.
The Daily Telegraph (London) raves: "Those in search of a theatrical treat need look no futher" than the Globe's production of this hilarious and brilliantly constructed farce.
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A strong case can be made for William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor -- now being presented at Pace University's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts in a thoroughly irresistible Shakespeare's Globe production -- being the first sitcom.
For example, when Mistresses Ford and Page decide to play a practical joke on Sir John Falstaff for presuming to court both of them simultaneously -- and when hubby Ford decides to surprise the spouse he believes is cheating on him -- it's a very short leap over 350 years to the day when Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz arranged some retaliation against Ricky and Fred after some perceived foolish transgression.
The immensely entertaining imp[...]