The Merry Wives of Windsor

Michelle Terry becomes possibly the first artistic director of literally any theatre anywhere to programme Shakespeare’s comedy curio The Merry Wives of Windsor not once but twice. Following its 2019 outing, this time it’ll be directedby Globe associate director Sean Holmes, who had a great track record with the Bard’s zanier comedies – he’s able to inject enough sardonic weirdness into them to stop then floating away. The Merry Wives is, of course, Shakespeare’s spin off from the Henry IV plays, imagining the beloved character of Falstaff now up to convoluted romantic intrigue in what would appear to be Elizabethan England.