Shakespeare in the Park
The Maryland Shakespeare Festival is presenting The Merry Wives of Windsor for three free performances at the Baker Park bandshell. Dates are June 26, 27 and 28 at 6:00 PM.
Here’s a synopsis of the play:
The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket.
Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom.
Maryland Shakespeare Festival events are sensational. That said, the Hood College venue was unbeatable: beautiful, quiet, even romantic.
Rain is forecast for the next three performance nights. Strange, but MSF events in June seem to attract rain. We’ll keep our fingers crossed.
I hope they’re wrong about the rain!!! The MSF deserves better.
Seems like the rain gods have seen fit to intrude upon a lot of activities so far this spring/summer.
If you missed this hillarous performance, you can see it in other locations around Maryland for the rest of July. Go to http://www.mdshakes.org for more info.