Much Ado About Falstaff

Date: Thursday 12th June 2025

Show Time: 7.30pm

Ticket cost: £15 (adult) / £10 under 16* 

 

Written by Simon Downing

 

The Corn Hall is pleased to welcome back, Giles Shenton Productions following up with 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 Falstaff is now ready to be unleashed upon the masses once again!

 

If you have access requirements, please contact the Box Office on 01379 652241 (between 10am to 4pm Monday to Saturday) to complete your booking. This allows us to ensure that your visit is as comfortable as possible. We have a limit on how many wheelchair spaces we can safely accommodate so these need to be reserved in advance.

 

As a charity we rely on donations to help cover the cost of delivering our programme of exhibitions, events, our community activities such as our Dementia Café, Arts Award, Saturday Club, Tots Tuesdays, Start With Art, as well as supporting our core costs. We ask you to support The Corn Hall with a donation, so that we can continue to be a creative community hub for Diss. Whatever the donation, anything from £1 to £10,000, is support that The Corn Hall didn't have until you very kindly gave it to us. We offer you a very warm thank you.

 

 

*not including booking fees