The Merry Wives of Windsor " review
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe pre-curtain buzz at the bar of the Globe said that this version of Shakespeare's crowd-pleasing Falstaff comedy of failed seduction, produced by Bitter Pill & Theatre Company Kenya, was "a hoot", which seemed improbable. Translating Elizabethan Windsor into contemporary Africa was always going to be a test of the playwright's global reach, an idea that's become an article of faith for t…