Much ado about nothing by Shakespeare

Director: Jeremy Herrin

Design: Mike Britton
Composer: Stephen Warbeck

Cast: 

Eve Best - Beatrice
Philip Cumbus - Claudio
Charles Edwards - Charles Edwards
Marcus Griffiths - Conrad
Adrian Hood - Verges
Paul Hunter - Dogberry
Joseph Marcell - Leonato
Lisa McGrillis - Margaret
David Nellist - George Seacoal, Messenger
Matthew Pidgeon - Don John, Sexton
John Stahl - Antonio
Ewan Stewart - Don Pedro
Ony Uhiara - Hero
Joe Caffrey - Borachio
Helen Weir - Ursula

Claudio loves Hero and Hero Claudio and nothing seems capable of tearing them apart. Claudio’s friend Benedick loves Beatrice and Beatrice Benedick, but (because neither will admit it) nothing seems capable of bringing them together. Only the intrigues of a resentful prince force Benedick to prove his love for Beatrice – by killing his best friend.

Driven along by a romance all the more charming for being unacknowledged, Much Ado About Nothing is a miracle of comic and dramatic suspense and gives us, in the bantering Beatrice and Benedick, two of Shakespeare’s wittiest, most lovable pair of lovers.