Auditions
Auditions held March 15-16 7pm MTA theatre.
At the Garter Inn:
- The Hostess of the Garter Inn
- Sir John Falstaff-a crown pensioner, lodging at the inn
- Robin – page to Falstaff.
- Bardolph-Falstaff's friend
- Pistol- Falstaff's friend
- Nym – Falstaff's friend
- Robert Shallow – a Country Justice.
- Abraham Slender – cousin to Shallow.
- Peter Simple – servant to Slender.
- Fenton – a young gentleman.
- George (Thomas) Page – a gentlemen dwelling at Windsor.
- Mistress Margaret Page- Page's wife
- Anne Page – Mistress Page's daughter, in love with Fenton.
- Mr. Frank Ford-a gentlemen dwelling at Windsor.
- Mistress Alice Ford- Ford's wife
- John-servant to Ford family
- Robert-servant to Ford family
- Sir Hugh Evans – a Welsh parson
- Doctor Caius – a French physician.
- John Rugby – a servant to Doctor Caius.
- Mistress Quickly – Doctor Caius' s housekeeper
Cast List
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Updates to the original cast list:
Pistol: Rigel Orion Nym: Joaquin Jiminez Robin: Jaden Fox Shallow: Willow Dodson Simple: James Ivy Fenton: Lee Brown John and Roberta: Jeff Rusco and Alyssa Garcia Del Solar Minstrel: John Huan |
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Carl Hoover April 21, 2021
Kyndal Rinewalt (left) and Ashlyn Meador prepare to shame a scheming, but buffoonish suitor in McLennan Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives Of Windsor,” which opens April 29 at Bosque River Stage. Photo by Rod Aydelotte, Tribune-Herald.
“The Merry Wives Of Windsor,” McLennan Theatre, April 29-May 1
McLennan Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives Of Windsor” was initially scheduled as an indoor production this weekend in McLennan Community College’s Music & Theatre Arts building.
The smaller, more intimate space works well for comedy and director Kelly Parker felt it ideal for one of Shakespeare’s lighter comedies. As the calendar advanced to production time and community COVID-19 case rates were still high enough to maintain the college’s protocols, it became clear that social distancing within the MTA’s seating configuration would mean a markedly small audience.
Given other options such as filming it, as the theater did for “Tristan and Isolde” last fall, or going outdoors at the Bosque River Stage as it did with “Puffs” several weeks later, Parker chose the latter. “Doing it outdoors is our best chance to do it as a play, play-like,” he said.
In “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” Shakespeare takes one of his popular characters from his two-part “Henry IV,” the rotund and blustery Falstaff, and makes him a central part of the story. A down-and-out Falstaff decides to woo two well-to-do married women in hopes of charming them out of some money. The women, Mistresses Ford and Page , quickly see through him and begin a series of pranks and tricks to foil and humiliate him for presuming they’d fall for him.
Shifting that from an indoor performance with a close-up audience to an outdoor one where both stage and seating are larger required some adjustment for the 20-person cast, not only in blocking onstage action but projecting Shakespearean lines to listeners farther back from the stage. “It’s a completely different experience for the actors, a different challenge,” Parker noted.
In its favor, most of the play is in prose rather than verse and the plot less convoluted than other Shakespearean comedies with multiple sets of mistaken identities. “It’s one of his more silly comedies ... some slapstick, some tomfoolery,” he said.
Due to the outdoor production and sufficient space for seating, the McLennan Theatre production will not require audience members to wear masks.
“The Merry Wives Of Windsor,” McLennan Theatre, April 29-May 1
McLennan Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives Of Windsor” was initially scheduled as an indoor production this weekend in McLennan Community College’s Music & Theatre Arts building.
The smaller, more intimate space works well for comedy and director Kelly Parker felt it ideal for one of Shakespeare’s lighter comedies. As the calendar advanced to production time and community COVID-19 case rates were still high enough to maintain the college’s protocols, it became clear that social distancing within the MTA’s seating configuration would mean a markedly small audience.
Given other options such as filming it, as the theater did for “Tristan and Isolde” last fall, or going outdoors at the Bosque River Stage as it did with “Puffs” several weeks later, Parker chose the latter. “Doing it outdoors is our best chance to do it as a play, play-like,” he said.
In “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” Shakespeare takes one of his popular characters from his two-part “Henry IV,” the rotund and blustery Falstaff, and makes him a central part of the story. A down-and-out Falstaff decides to woo two well-to-do married women in hopes of charming them out of some money. The women, Mistresses Ford and Page , quickly see through him and begin a series of pranks and tricks to foil and humiliate him for presuming they’d fall for him.
Shifting that from an indoor performance with a close-up audience to an outdoor one where both stage and seating are larger required some adjustment for the 20-person cast, not only in blocking onstage action but projecting Shakespearean lines to listeners farther back from the stage. “It’s a completely different experience for the actors, a different challenge,” Parker noted.
In its favor, most of the play is in prose rather than verse and the plot less convoluted than other Shakespearean comedies with multiple sets of mistaken identities. “It’s one of his more silly comedies ... some slapstick, some tomfoolery,” he said.
Due to the outdoor production and sufficient space for seating, the McLennan Theatre production will not require audience members to wear masks.