Merry Wives of Windsor, The
- Synopsis
- A video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 1998 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor directed by Daniel Fish and set in a Catskills holiday resort in the 1950s. David Sabin is Falstaff.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 25 Apr 1998
Credits
- Director
- Daniel Fish
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Production Design
- James Kronzer
- Costume
- Kaye Voyce
- Choreographer
- Peter Pucci
- Cast
Additional Details
- Theatre
- Lansburgh, Washington, DC
- Theatre company
- Shakespeare Theatre Company
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Historical period
- 1950s
- Plays
- Merry Wives of Windsor, The
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Open-air theatre
Notes
- Notes
- WAPAVA also recorded the performance at Carter Barron on 9 June 1999.
- General
- In an interview on the Shakespeare Theatre Company website (accessed 11/2007) Fish gives his reasons for setting the play in 1950s America - , "we think of a time when repression and conformity gave way to a new freedom of expression and liberality. Shakespeare’s plays, all of them, are replete with this exact transformation. He is always concerned with what is irrepressible in human nature. In the case of Merry Wives, it’s jealousy, love and lust. They’re the same ideas we see in Othello, told from a comedic point of view."
- History
- Produced by the Shakespeare Theatre at the Lansburgh, Washington, DC, 24 March-10 May 1998; and at the Shakespeare Theatre Free for All at the Carter Barron Amphitheatre, Washington, DC, 5-20 June 1999.
- Reviews
- Johnson-Haddad, Miranda. Shakespeare Bulletin 17, no. 2 (1999).
Archive
- Name
Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive (WAPAVA)
- leahkim@umd.edu
- Web
- http://www.wapava.org External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (301) 405 9117
- Address
- James J. Taylor Collection
Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742-1630
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Merry Wives of Windsor, The". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av69576 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)