Review by Sheldon Polonsky of “The Merry Wives of Windsor”: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Brian Isaac Phillips, director of the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s latest production, concluded
Mr. Chace’s villainy is perfection: exhibited clearly while still maintaining brilliant restraint, somehow making Iago even more sinister.
The actors are succeeding in exactly what the play demands: exposing the ugliness beneath carefully constructed civility.
From the beginning, the emotions are so palpable that the language almost became secondary.
