The comedian Alistair McGowan joins a stellar cast to play the jealous husband Frank Ford, at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon in a new musical version of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, at the RST this winter.

Directed and adapted by RSC director Gregory Doran, this world premiere has songs composed by Paul Englishby, with lyrics by Ranjit Bolt, and is performed as part of the RSC’s ongoing Complete Works Festival which began in April this year and runs until April 2007.

Bolt was recently featured in Tara Arts’ Marriage of Figaro.
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