The Merry Wives of Windsor set in the SWINGING SIXTIES of London, England is the most purely farcical of all of Shakespeare’s plays. Sir John Falstaff conspires to seduce Mrs. Page and Mrs. Ford, the wives of two prominent citizens. The women play along with him in order to expose him as a preposterous lecher. Then, to complicate matters, the insanely jealous Mr. Ford disguises himself as one “Mr. Brook” and hires Falstaff to procure Mrs. Ford for him in order to (so he plans) reveal her suspected infidelity. But Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page dupe both Falstaff and Mr. Ford. On one occasion, Falstaff is tricked into hiding in a basket of dirty clothes, then dropped into the river, on another occasion, he must disguise himself as a fat old woman, a “witch” much hated by Mr. Ford, who summarily pummels him. Finally, both husbands join their “merry wives” in an elaborate masque-like entertainment, the high point of which is the humiliation of Falstaff, who has this time disguised himself with a massive set of horns on his head.

Location:
Cedar Ridge High School 
2801 Gattis School Rd Round Rock, TX 78664

Tickets are $5 per person, and can be purchased online.