{"id":1589,"date":"2010-06-04T20:58:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T01:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:34:34","slug":"osf-merrywives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/osf-merrywives\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Shakespeare Festival Opens with &#8216;The Merry Wives of Windsor&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD,  Miss. \u2013\u00a0A man down on both luck and cash hatches a scheme to  seduce the wives of rich men and get at their husbands&#8217; money. Things  get complicated, however, when the two women compare their letters and  \u2013 finding them identical \u2013 hatch a plan of their own.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jce_caption\" style=\"width: 400px; margin: 8px; padding: 6px; float: left; border: 1px solid #000000; display: inline-block;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; float: left;\" alt=\"merry-wives1\" src=\"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/wp-content\/uploads\/merry-wives1.jpg\" height=\"391\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 6px; color: #000000; clear: both;\"><strong>Peter Pinnow stars as Falstaff in William Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8216;The Merry Wives of Windsor,&#8217; opening June 11 in Meek Hall Auditorium. Playing the merry wives are Kate Hooper (left) as Mistress Page and Rachel Daniel as Mistress Ford.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sound  like a plot from &#8220;Days of Our Lives&#8221;? No, it&#8217;s Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>The  Bard&#8217;s &#8220;The Merry Wives of Windsor,&#8221; part of the 2010 Oxford  Shakespeare Festival&#8217;s &#8220;A Royal Season,&#8221; opens at 8 p.m. Friday  (June 11) in Meek Hall Auditorium at the University of Mississippi.  This production is the first of seven for &#8220;Merry Wives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tickets  are $14 for adults and $11 for seniors\/students\/youth. For more  information  on purchasing OSF season subscriptions or single-performance tickets,  contact the UM Ticket Office at 662-915-7411.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford  High School teacher Peter Pinnow is featured in the lead role of Sir  John Falstaff, Shakespeare&#8217;s misguided but good-hearted knight. This  is Pinnow&#8217;s third appearance in the annual Shakespeare Festival, and  he is honored to be featured as one of Shakespeare&#8217;s most loved  characters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m  incredibly flattered,&#8221; Pinnow said. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t been acting  for very long, so to get offered a lead role is stunning. Shakespeare  is almost like a secular religion; this is the man who taught us all  how to think and be, and to have a chance to share his words with other  people and interpret his work in a way that other people get is a  transcendent  experience. You try to do the best you possibly can with the fantastic  language and scenes he provided.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pinnow  said one of his favorite experiences is getting to work with a talented  cast, including Dex Edwards, director and UM associate professor of  theatre arts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Merry  Wives&#8217; has such a big cast, and the people I work with have all kinds  of talent,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The chance to be around them is beautiful  as I grow slowly as an actor. Dex is doing a fantastic job of pulling  out every gag and nuance you could possibly think of. I&#8217;ve never seen  a production of &#8216;Merry Wives of Windsor,&#8217; but if I wasn&#8217;t performing,  I&#8217;d want to be sitting in the audience watching this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dustin  Gibson is cast as Pistol, one of Falstaff&#8217;s cohorts. Like Pinnow, he  said the talent level of the cast alone is worth coming to see a  production  of the comedy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s  great getting to do Shakespeare&#8217;s material with people I consider to  be true professionals in the area,&#8221; Gibson said. &#8220;Dex is always  on, trying to make the audience understand and love what we as actors  have grown to love over our lives. It&#8217;s been a pleasure to work with  people like him and Peter who have this very central passion for the  words and for lost art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The  Merry Wives of Windsor&#8221; is the first of three productions for the  2010 Oxford Shakespeare Festival, which also includes Shakespeare&#8217;s  great tragedy &#8220;Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,&#8221; opening June 19,  and Rodger and Hammerstein&#8217;s musical &#8220;The King and I,&#8221; opening  June 24.<\/p>\n<p>Visit  <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespeare.olemiss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shakespeare.olemiss.edu<\/a> for more information on additional performances  of &#8220;Merry Wives&#8221; and the festival&#8217;s other productions.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013\u00a0A man down on both luck and cash hatches a scheme to seduce the wives of rich men and get at their husbands&#8217; money. 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