The Merry Wives of Windsor review " Essex is not the only way
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonFiona Laird's production provides wheelie-bins, estuary accents, physical comedy and a first-rate Falstaff, but loses the sense of small-town life No one would go to the stake to defend Shakespeare's exuberant comedy against innovative directors. All the same, I am puzzled by some of the choices made by Fiona Laird in her RSC debut. She endows the wives with estuary accen…