The MADC’s Shakes-peare offering at San Anton Gardens this year is the comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor. But this is no simple adaptation of the play. Director Chris Gatt has transformed this comedy into a 1960’s romp, complete with rock ‘n roll music, polka-dot bikinis and biker jackets.

The play is being performed between 13 and 23 July (excluding the 17th) and stars Mikhail Basmadjian as the much-loved Shakespear-ian character John Falstaff, Charlotte Grech as Mistress Ford, Coryse Borg as Mistress Page, Pia Zammit as Mistress Quickly, Alan Paris as Ford and Stefan Cachia Zammit as Page, as well as a number of other top local actors such as Marylu Coppini, Colin Willis, Faye Paris, Michael Zammit Maempel, Edward Caruana Galizia, Wesley Ellul, Jean-Marc Agius Cafa, Edward Degaetano and Katherine Brown.

Tickets, at Lm6 and Lm7, will be on sale exclusively from Agenda Bookshop outlets that are also offering a 20 per cent discount on the Merry Wives paperback script.

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