High-concept Shakespeare gives me a rash. I should modify that. Most of the time, when directors impose some great new twist, time period, setting, the result merely obscures rather than heightens the play itself. That said, my favorite Merry Wives of Windsor of all time was the Royal Shakespeare Company's version, which was set in an "I Love Lucy"-like 1950s. The laughs were so big the actors had to hold and hold…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:16PM on November 15, 2010