The Chelsfield

Players

George Page - David Clent
Mistress Page - Pat Walls
Anne Page - Lana Beckwith
Frank Ford - Jo East
Mistress Ford - Cynthia Hearing
John (servant) - TBC
Robert (servant) - TBC
Sir Hugh Evans - Philip Lane
Dr Caius - Ken Clarke
Mistress Quickly - Lestrine Wishart
John Rugby - Philip George
Host - Judy Ives
Fenton - Neil Robertson
Sir John Falstaff - Keith Wishart
Robin - Lana Beckwith
Bardolph - Anne Allocca
Pistol - Elaine Mackay
Robert Shallow - Emily Edmunds
Abraham Slender - Rupert Allen
Peter Simple - Dominica Winter

 The Merry Wives of Windsor

by William Shakespeare

Falstaff arrives in Windsor very short on money. He decides, to obtain financial advantage, that he will court two wealthy married women, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. Falstaff decides to send the women identical love letters. Ford and Page (the husbands) are informed of Falstaff's intentions. Page is not concerned but the jealous Ford persuades the Host of the Garter to introduce him to Falstaff as a 'Master Brook' so that he can find out Falstaff's plans.

Meanwhile, three different men are trying to win the hand of Page's daughter, Mistress Anne Page. Mistress Page would like her daughter to marry Doctor Caius, a French physician, whereas the girl's father would like her to marry Master Slender. Anne herself is in love with Master Fenton, but Page had previously rejected Fenton as a suitor due to his having squandered his considerable fortune on high-class living.

Mistress Ford and Mistress Page discover Falstaff’s plan and decide to play a number of tricks on him to their own amusement.

Eventually the wives tell their husbands about the series of jokes they have played on Falstaff, and together they devise one last trick which ends up with the Knight being humiliated in front of the whole town.

Fenton and Anne arrive and admit that they love each other and have been married. Fenton chides the parents for trying to force Anne to marry men she did not love and the parents accept the marriage and congratulate the young pair. Eventually they all leave together and Mistress Page even invites Falstaff to come with them: "let us every one go home, and laugh at this sport o'er by a country fire; Sir John and all".