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Article: `Merry Wives' is updated marriage of wit and lust.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts And Entertainment)(Theater)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 31, 1998
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Falstaff as a lounge singer! Bardolph, Nym and Pistol as his cool jazz sidemen! Badminton, golf, martinis - such is the milieu in director Daniel Fish's light, bright updating of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," which opened last night at the Shakespeare Theatre.
The 1956 American setting doesn't help Mr. Fish illuminate the themes of "Merry Wives," but the themes are wafer-thin. Anyone who saw "Othello" at the Shakespeare Theatre last fall probably will muse about the wholly different kind of jealous spasm that overwhelms Frank Ford (yes, he's "Frank" here), one of the husbands of the titular merry wives.
But even mentioning the two plays in the ...