Baited Bear Players to Present THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR at LATEA Theater, 10/24-11/10

The Baited Bear Players will begin its inaugural season with William Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor. Set in Renaissance England, The Merry Wives of Windsor navigates national, social and gender stereotypes in a famous Berkshire town. Relying on devices that range from subtle sarcasm and accidental double-entendre to broad physical comedy, the play pits clever and virtuous merchant-class wives wrongly assumed to be weak- willed against Sir John Falstaff, a vulgar and underhanded gentleman wrongly assumed to be noble in character. To heighten the comedic potential, Shakespeare peppers this joyful world of Windsor's wily townsfolk with an ensemble of foreigners, rogues and other comedic archetypes.

Merry Wives of Windsor will be playing from October 24th to November 10 at the LATEA Theater. Performances will take place Wednesday-Saturday at 8p.m.and Sunday at 2p.m.