Northern Broadsides join forces with the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, to stage William Shakespeare’s superb medley of comedy and farce The Merry Wives. Directed and featuring Northern Broadsides Artistic Director Barrie Rutter O.B.E. in the role of Sir John Falstaff, the new production will visit Liverpool Playhouse between Tuesday 24th May and Saturday 28th May.

It’s the 1920s in North of England and Sir John Falstaff is past-his-prime and skint. Vain rogue that he is he attempts, rather clumsily, to seduce a couple of well-to-do wives… but Mistress Page and Mistress Ford get wise to his plan and scheme to exact revenge with hilarious and unimaginable consequences.