Globe to Globe: The
Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's Globe
Mrisho Mpoto's Falstaff woos Lydiah Gitachu's Mistress Ford.
Of all Shakespeare’s plays, his reprise of
Falstaffian humour to please Queen Bess is surely the most specific in its
prosaic gallimaufry of earthy English vocabulary. Yet it’s also the most
universal in its target-practice at the lecherous, traditionally overbuilt
gentleman-hero. So it was easy enough to forego relish of words like
"wittol", "frampold" and "drumble", not to
mention the choicest fat-man insults, and just enjoy the broader brushstrokes
of the fun had by independent-minded Nairobi wives at the expense of Mrisho
Mpoto’s jolly Sir John throughout this exuberant production in Swahili
from Bitter Pill and The Theatre Company Kenya.....
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