Performer Name: Giles Shenton Productions

Show Name: Much Ado About Falstaff

Show Description

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, played by Georgie Taylor. 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 for an evening of jollity, frivolity, a definite lack of coequality and more Shakespearean insults than ever previously heard on a theatrical stage! “Giles Shenton effortlessly embodies all that audiences have come to know and love of Sir John Falstaff. He commands the stage with epic, rousing speech peppered with asides that win the audience within the opening moments. Much Ado About Falstaff is an evening of silliness that revels in its humour and wit, be it bardic wordplay or fart jokes. “More Shakespearean insults than ever previously heard on a theatrical stage” is undoubtedly correct and these often find themselves met with the sharp clap of a slapstick. This latest show is a lot of good, unclean fun and embodies the spirit of the Fat Knight himself. To be enjoyed by Shakespeare lovers and haters alike it is more than worthy of its place in the canon.” The Brighton Source

self contained
get in 3hrs before performance - get out 40mins min space of approx 4m x 4m required
flyers and posters provided and free programmes at the interval
Giles' training for the theatre started at college and then took a very hands-on approach working in the West End on numerous productions including Grease, Barnum, Grand Hotel, 'Allo 'Allo, four Royal Variety Performances and three Olivier Awards. Directing credits include Barnum (in the Big Top), Little Shop of Horrors (touring), The West End Story (touring), The Haunted House (touring) and The Haunted House Season 2 (touring). Acting credits include Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night (Polesden Lacey Open Air Theatre Company), Phillipe in Heroes (TheAtre), the character Giles in Upstaged (Phoenix Theatre, Bordon), The Man in My Dog's Got No Nose, Herbert Pinnegar in Old Herbaceous, Bill in Fagin? and Falstaff in Much Ado About Falstaff (all national touring productions for Kick In The Head & GSP). Giles has previously acted as a producer for a number of theatre production companies including Theatre2u and Kick In The Head producing such shows as Choice Grenfell, Little Red Riding Hood & The Three Funky Pigs, The Man With The Golden Pen and Blockbusters from the Movies. He now runs GSP producing such shows as Three Men in a Boat, Old Herbaceous, Into The Breach, Flo Smith Now & Then, My Dog’s Got No Nose, Dead on Cue and What’s Wrong with Benny Hill?.