THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

After  THE DREAM at GLOBE OF THE GREAT SOUTHWEST, we went immediately into production on this farce by Shakespeare. Not considered one of the great plays, it is however quite humorous and was one of the most widely performed of his works not only during his lifetime but up to the present day. The character of Falstaff from HENRY IV parts 1& 2 was so popular with audiences of the day that it is assumed Shakespeare concocted this lively farce as a way of "bringing him back from the dead" to entertain again.

My designs were all based on period costumes from 1601 when the play was written and the production followed the traditional period staging.  In contrast to the experimental work on THE DREAM.