The Show Must Go Online today announce the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed reading of William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
For The Merry Wives of Windsor, Rob Myles directs Elliott Bornemann (Fenton), Gary Boulter (Host of the Garter Inn), Aruna Clinch (Mistress Alice Ford), Adam Courting (Francis Ford), Samya De Meo (Anne Page), Alix Dunmore (Mistress Margaret Page), Brian Eastty (Robert Shallow), David Ellis (Doctor Caius), Simone Ellul (Pistol), Joanna Harte (Mistress Quickly), Luke Heys (Ensemble), Robert Lightfoot (Sir John Falstaff), Jordan Lillie (Peter Simple), Eugenia Low (Ensemble), Luke MacLeod (Ensemble), Ally Poole (George Page), Jennifer Shakesby (Sir Hugh Evans), Marina Smith (Ensemble), Micah Weese (Abraham Slender), with Eric Fredrickson and Sarah McCourt as swings.
Members of the cast have worked with Shakespeare’s Globe, Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC, Secret Cinema, Kiln Theatre, Sky Arts, Arcola Theatre, Out of Joint, Les Enfants Terribles, Reduced Shakespeare Company, Shitfaced Shakespeare and more.
The livestreamed reading of The Merry Wives of Windsor can be watched live on Wednesday 1 July at 7pm BST here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh0-V6Qacjs). Previous readings from the series are also available here (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBFO-wpdFFypTYtKyK7CEBCBgFZtRmL0z)
For updates on the shows, to take part, or to donate to an opt-in hardship fund for the actors who take part, visit: https://robmyles.co.uk/theshowmustgoonline.
FULL SCHEDULE
All performances will be streamed live from 7pm BST on Wednesdays.
01 July 2020
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597)
08 July 2020
Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–1598)
15 July 2020
Much Ado About Nothing (1598–1599)
22 July 2020
Henry V (1599)
29 July 2020
Julius Caesar (1599)
05 August 2020
As You Like It (1599–1600)
12 August 2020
Hamlet (1599–1601)
19 August 2020
Twelfth Night (1601)
26 August 2020
Troilus and Cressida (1600–1602)
02 September 2020
Measure for Measure (1603–1604)
09 September 2020
Othello (1603–1604)
16 September 2020
All's Well That Ends Well (1604–1605)
23 September 2020
King Lear (1605–1606)
30 September 2020
Timon of Athens (1605–1606)
07 October 2020
Macbeth (1606)
14 October 2020
Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
21 October 2020
Coriolanus (1608)
28 October 2020
The Winter's Tale (1609–1611)
04 November 2020
Cymbeline (1610)
11 November 2020
The Tempest (1610–1611)
18 November 2020
Henry VIII (1612–1613)
