What tragedies will befall a powerful man crippled with jealousy? William Shakespeare’s classic tale of a successful black man’s fall from grace complicates views of true excellence and cunning mediocrity as they clash together. Fidelity, faith, friendship and chastity get tested and fail as one man’s hatred for the Moor spirals out of control

Sir John Falstaff is immensely fat, cowardly, greedy, lecherous, and one of the most beloved characters in all of Shakespeare, a "huge hill of flesh" whose affection for his beloved Prince Hal ultimately leads to his banishment. Obscene, complex, and hilarious, Falstaff in Love is an ode to Shakespeare's immense creation and his world, and the beauty and pain that comes from love and its loss.