The Merry Wives of Windsor update
Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is to be directed by Phillip Breen, with Desmond Barrit as Falstaff.
Phillip's theatre credits include:
- Sex with a Stranger by Stefan Golaszewski (Trafalgar Studios)
- A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg by Peter Nichols (Glasgow Citizens)
- Humphrey Ker Is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher! (Winner 2011 Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer and Soho Theatre 2012)
- The Hard Man by Tom McGrath and Jimmy Boyle, Festival Theatre Edinburgh / Scottish Touring Consortium (2011 Cats Award Nomination for Alex Ferns (Best Performance)
Phillip has been Assistant Director at the RSC for Gregory Doran's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Nancy Meckler's The Comedy of Errors.
He is co-author of Directors' Shakespeare (Routledge), his essay about Jonathan Slinger is published in Actors' Shakespeare (Routledge) and he and has directed productions of All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night (Birmingham School of Acting) and Measure for Measure.
As well as curating the RSC's 2005 Laugh-In comedy festival, his comedy work includes Lady Garden: Top Secret Gig and Far Too Happy (Edinburgh Fringe, London and Tour), which was nominated for the 2001 Perrier Comedy Award - Best Newcomer.
Desmond, who will be playing Falstaff, has been cast in several RSC productions, playing Falstaff in Henry IV Parts I and II and appearing in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, King Lear and The Tempest.
Other theatre includes:
- Henry IV Parts I and II (Bath Theatre Royal)
- Habit of Art, History Boys, Stuff Happens, Mountain Giants, The Wind in the Willows (National Theatre)
- Wicked, Real Inspector Hound (ACT)
- Twelfth Night (Theatre Royal Norwich)
- She Stoops to Conquer (Royal Exchange, Manchester)
- Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Donmar Warehouse)
The Merry Wives of Windsor will play in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre for the Winter 2012 season, in repertoire with family show The Mouse and his Child.