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Globe's slimline Falstaff is a half-fat hero, in a Merry Wives Of Windsor that's not quite merry enough
Shakespeare's comedy is out of step with modern tastes, thanks to its body shaming. Sean Holmes's new production gets around the problem by casting slim George Fouracres as Falstaff.
Awkwardly out of step with modern tastes, thanks to its period appetite for comic humiliation and body shaming, Sean Holmes’s cheerful new production gets around the problem by casting a trim and handsome George Fouracres in a fat suit as Falstaff. Larger than life: Director Sean Holmes gets round the problem of body shaming in Merry Wives by casting a slim actor, George Fouracres, and putting him in a fat suit Dr Feelgood’s feisty former guitarist Wilko Johnson (real name John Wilkinson), who passed away three years ago, may just have found the perfect final resting place: an underground theatre off Leicester Square.
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