REVIEW: Falstaff, Arcola Theatre ★★★★★
By Tim Hochstrasser After Monty Python and Blackadder it is not really possible to present this type of opera in full cross-gartered fustian without an ironic angle; so much better in many ways, therefore, to take it out of time and re-present it in another period altogether, or in contemporary dress " as here " where in effect it becomes The Merry Chavs of Windsor. The result is one of the best vindications of the G…