The Merry Wives of Windsor 89-90

Written by royal command as a play about Falstaff in love, this delightful comedy is more about how chaste wives chasten their jealous husbands. A merry tale of love, shame and sexual misadventure, this is the most Elizabethan of Shakespeare’s comedies.

“It was my first male role and I didn’t know how to swagger. It’s a question of physiognomy. Women just don’t have the stuff to do it with. One day it just happened and I shouted out, “I’m swaggering! I’m swaggering!”…Frank Rich [of The New York Times] really got what I was trying to do with the role. He saw that, in the last scene, a tragic character appears.”
–Pat Carroll (Falstaff) in An American Classic: Shakespeare Theatre Company

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Emery Battis
Justice Shallow

Matt Bradford Sullivan
Abraham Slender

John Thomas Waite
Sir Hugh Evans

Pat Carroll
Sir John Falstaff

Cornell Womack
Bardolph

Carter Jahncke
Pistol

Edward Morgan
Nym

Tonia Rowe
Anne Page

Franchelle Stewart Dorn
Mistress Page

Caitlin O’Connell
Mistress Ford

Jason Kravits
Peter Simple

Richard Dix
Host of the Garter Inn

Eddie Tyclus Robinson or Baakari Askia Wilder
Robin

Marilyn Sokol
Mistress Quickly

Hunter Boyle
John Rugby

Floyd King
Doctor Caius

Michael MacCauley
Fenton

Edward Gero
Master Ford

Mark Douglas
John

Conrad Feininger
Robert

Drew Kahl and Margo West
Servants

Nicole Dana, Kristin Dorn, Kari Ginsburg, Dan Cameron Lowe, Jason Roland Reed
OR C.W. Hardy, Lisa Ann Miller, Areesah Mobley, Natalie Simone, Robert Zalkind
Children

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Michael Kahn
Director

Derek McLane
Set Designer

Catherine Zuber
Costume Designer

John McLain
Lighting Designer

Steven Rydberg
Composer

Elizabeth Smith
Vocal Consultant

Roberta Gasbarre
Movement Consultant

James Latus
Stage Manager

John W. Kingsbury
Production Manager

Stuart Howard and Amy Schecter
Casting
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