The Merry Wives of Windsor

by William Shakespeare

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May 9 through June 2
Thursdays through Sundays at 8 pm
in Riverside Park

Take the 1 train to 79th St. and walk west on 79th to the entrance to Riverside Park. Enter on the north side of the street, and follow the path to the right. (Alternatively, enter at 83rd St. and follow the path to the left.)

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directed by Brian Olsen
stage manager: Elana Wolff
costume designer: Jenna Rossi
assistant costume designer: Jennifer Tisi
publicist: Lauren Snyder
postcard design: Sean Elias-Reyes

featuring
Gyda Arber - Bruce Barton* - Paul Coffey - Matthew Dellapina - Wendy Frado* - Signe Grant - Darin Guerrasio - Blake Hackler* - Ben Hauck* - Thomas Hays* - Michael B. Healey - Harvey Johnson - Ed Lane - Ellen Lee - Johanna Leister* - David Natale* - Michael Nathanson* - Richard Scudney - Christi Spain-Savage

* appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
In Shakespeare's comedy, two honest but fun-loving housewives play a trick on Falstaff, the blustering knight who thinks he's fooling his way into their purses and their beds. Against a backdrop of games and play, good-natured trickery in the spirit of community and true love wins out against self-centered deceit in the name of jealousy and gain. As Master Ford goes to elaborate lengths to prove his wife's treachery, as two young lovers plot to escape from two unwanted marriages, and as a pair of outsiders mock their way into acceptance, Mistress Page and Mistress Ford take their revenge on Falstaff and prove that "wives may be merry, and yet honest too."

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