Merry Wives: Women Rule and Boys Muck it Up

The Merry Wives of Windsor is one of the lesser known and lesser performed plays of Shakespeare - but that certainly doesn’t make it less than. Join Lance Marsh as John Falstaff, and our Merry Wives - Lindsey Rollins as Mistress Ford and Denise Hughes as Mistress Page - as we discuss why this play is under performed and the big characters (emphasis on big - like fat suit big), big ideas, and big personalities that make this play a BIG deal. Women and women’s friendship take center stage, and for once, in Shakespeare, we get more than a messy marriage - we get a happy ending. So get ready for chaos to hit the stage and spill right into the audience; join us for Merry Wives opening Thursday, June 5th. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Tickets for Merry Wives of Windsor opening June 5th: Merry Wives of Windsor — Oklahoma ShakespearePlease donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠ Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Dr. Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠D. Lance Marsh (he/him/his) is proud to be serving in his sixteenth year as an Associate Artistic Director for Oklahoma Shakespeare and just finished his nineteenth year at TheatreOCU, where he serves as a Professor and Head of Performance.  For OS, he has acted in Hamlet, Emma and Blythe Spirit and directed Misalliance, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Merchant of Venice, A Comedy of Errors, The Seagull, Othello, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Blythe Spirit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, GB Shaw’s You Never Can Tell, and Much Ado About Nothing.  Lindsey Rollins is thrilled to be returning to the OK Shakespeare Garden stage. Other recent credits include Twelfth Night (2019 & 2024), Jane Austen’s A Christmas Cracker (2019, 2022, & 2023), Hamlet, As You Like It,Sense & Sensibility, and A Midsummer Nights Dream (Oklahoma Shakespeare); Medea, Outward Bound, The Wonder (3rd Act Theater Company); Matilda the musical (KidsAlive! Theater); Beauty & the Beast (Sooner Theater); The Addams Family: A New Musical (2022 & 2018), King Lear, Little Women: the Musical (Rose State College); and Is He Dead? (Carpenter Square Theater).  Lindsey is an associate professor of Voice at Rose State College, teaches music at Messiah Lutheran School, and is the Director of Music at Messiah Lutheran Church. Lindsey would like to thank her biggest fan, her mother, for her constant support and love and her canine true love, Bullwinkle, for listening to her when no one else would.Denise Hughes (Mrs. Page) is excited to make her Oklahoma Shakespeare Gardens debut! Favorite shows include “Sweet Delilah Swim Club” and “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” (Jewel Box Theatre), “Heartbreak House” and “Hamlet” (3rd Act Theatre), “The Women” (Reduxion Theatre) and “The Library” (Carpenter Square). Directing credits include “On Golden Pond”, “Rumors” and “Arsenic and Old Lace” (Jewel Box Theatre) and “Damaged Goods” (3rd Act Theatre). Denise is the owner of Bella Voce voice studio in Edmond and a member of the band Everybody Else’s Girl as well as Bella Voce chamber choir. She is also a performer with Character Connection Co. She wants to thank Kris for trusting her with this character. She would also like to thank her husband David, for his love and support of her “play time” and God, for the gifts He has given her.