Falstaff
- By:
- Robert Nye, adapted by John Wood, who also directs, and Roger Forbes, who also performs
- Management:
- Richard Jordan in association with Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and The Old Castle Group
Production information can change over the run of the show.
It is 1459 and asleep on the floor of the Boar's Head Tavern is an old man, 81 years of age, who wakes and proceeds to tell us the story of his life, his exploits on the battlefield and in bed, his ancestors, kings he has known and so on. Doesn't sound too promising, does it? But when you bear in mind that the old man is Falstaff, who Shakespeare thought enough of to include in three plays, and kill off in a fourth, it begins to get interesting. For, we find, Falstaff didn't die (cf Henry V Parts two and three), he bought the Boar's Head, the very tavern where he spent so much time carousing with Prince Hal...
Run sheet
- Yvonne Arnaud, Mill Studio Guildford
- June 12-14
- Warehouse Croydon
- June 19-July 13
- Norden Farm Maidenhead
- July 16
- Georgian Theatre Royal Richmond, Yorkshire
- July 18
- South Holland Centre Spalding
- July 22
- Stephen Joseph Scarborough
- July 27
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