Written by Simon Downing
GSP follow up recent successes with Old Herbaceous, Three Men in a Boat and What's Wrong with Benny Hill with a new play about Sir John Falstaff…a rogue, a philanderer and a glutton, but also one of Shakespeare’s greatest and enduring comic creations.
In this new comedy by Simon Downing we find Falstaff, played by Giles Shenton (Old Herbaceous & Three Men in a Boat) in his bedroom in the Boars Head being nursed by Mistress Quickly.
The creditors arrive demanding payment. Will Falstaff resort to marrying Mistress Quickly in order to pay off his debts? Will he turn teetotal? Will he mellow in his old age? Find out the answers to all these important questions that Shakespeare never bothered to answer and join Falstaff and Mistress Quickly for an evening of jollity, frivolity, a definite lack of coequality and more Shakespearean insults than ever previously heard on a theatrical stage!
The play originally opened in Feb 2020 with most touring dates cancelled due to Covid......but Flastaff is now ready to be unleashed upon the masses once again!
Future performances
30 April 2025 Ilmington Village Hall, Ilmington, Warks
1 May 2025 Ilmington Village Hall, Ilmington, Warks
2 May 2025 Ilmington Village Hall, Ilmington, Warks
3 May 2025 Ilmington Village Hall, Ilmington, Warks
9 May 2025 Cotswold Playhouse, Stroud, Glos
16 May 2025 Southwold Arts Centre, Southwold, Suffolk
22 May 2025 Middlesbrough Theatre, Middlesbrough, North Yorks
29 May 2025 The Place, Bedford
12 June 2025 Corn Hall, Diss, Suffolk
21 June 2025 Burton Dassett Village Hall, Warks
26 June 2025 Stafford Gatehouse Theatre, Stafford, Staffs
27 June 2025 Stafford Gatehouse Theatre, Stafford, Staffs
28 June 2025 Stafford Gatehouse Theatre, Stafford, Staffs
25 July 2025 Barn Theatre, Oxted, Surrey
2 Aug 2025 Brixham Theatre, Brixham, Devon
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/brixham-theatre/much-ado-about-falstaff/e-qybbap
27 Sept 2025 Cygnet Theatre, Exeter, Devon
21 Mar 2026 Players Theatre, Thame, Oxon
Past performances
21 Feb 2020 Phoenix Theatre, Bordon, Hants
22 Feb 2020 Phoenix Theatre, Bordon, Hants
25 Feb 2020 South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, Berks **SOLD OUT**
1 Mar 2020 Vera Fletcher Hall, Thames Ditton, Surrey CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
23 May 2020 Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury, Somerset CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
11 June 2020 Cryer Arts Centre, Carshalton, Surrey CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
12 June 2020 Brixham Theatre, Brixham, Devon CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
18 June 2020 Middlesbrough Theatre, Middlesbrough, N Yorks CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
2 July 2020 Moorland Garden Hotel, Yelverton, Devon CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
3 July 2020 Cotswold Playhouse, Stroud, Glos CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
4 July 2020 Miserden Estate, Gloucestershire
15 July 2020 Torch Theatre, Milford Haven, Wales CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
17 July 2020 Caerau Gardens, Bala, N Wales CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
26 July 2020 Sussex Prairie Gardens, Henfield, West Sussex CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
1 Aug 2020 RHS Harlow Carr, Harrogate, Yorks CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
6 Aug 2020 Denmans Gardens, East Sussex CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
7 Aug 2020 Avon Mill, Kingsbridge, Devon CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
8 Aug 2020 Avon Mill, Kingsbridge, Devon CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
9 Aug 2020 Burrow Farm Gardens, nr Axminster, Devon CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
15 Aug 2020 Trebah Gardens Amphitheatre, Cornwall CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
22 Aug 2020 Leith Hill Place, Dorking, Surrey CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
30 Aug 2020 Wield & Downland Open Air Museum, Sussex
23 Sept 2020 Brighton Open Air Theatre, East Sussex
15 Oct 2020 Manor Pavilion Theatre, Sidmouth, Devon CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
16 Oct 2020 Cygnet Theatre, Exeter, Devon CANCELLED DUE TO COVID