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Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

The war in the battlefield is over. The war between Beatrice and Benedick has just begun. Read more …

Young couple Hero and Claudio believe nothing can damage their love. Beatrice and Benedick believe nothing would ever make them fall in love.

Love is the victim when gossip and lies are the weapons and things take an abrupt turn, plunging from comedy to tragedy, as the sinister intrigues of Don John threaten to tear lovers and friends apart.

Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s most frequently performed plays that gives us one of Shakespeare’s wittiest comedy of words, loyalty and the search for love.


The critical consensus

Benedick and Beatrice offer a romance worth believing in Irene Macdougall’s intelligent, well paced production.

****(*)Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 12/06/2016

A vivid and handsome interpretation of a play that revels in how beautifully mixed up a love story can be.

****(*)Neil Cooper, Coffee-Table Notes, 14/06/2016

The 12-strong ensemble is firing on all cylinders, often playing straight to the audience, to celebrate the Bard.

Joy Watters, Across the Arts, 14/06/2016

In the end, it both delights the audience, and succeeds in making us feel the bold ambivalence of a great, many-layered comedy that flirts darkly with death, but also offers a rare vision of true love between a strong, articulate and witty woman, and a man who is, just possibly, the first male feminist hero in western literature.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 15/06/2016

In the end, the warm, bright colours and sparkling back and forth between Winter and Jack stay with us like protective clothing as we brace ourselves for the dreich night outside.

****(*)Allan Radcliffe, 20/06/2016

All in all, this is a beautifully crafted, fabulously confident rendering of a great Shakespeare comedy. On this showing, the Rep need look no further than MacDougall in its quest for a new artistic director.

Mark Brown, Scottish Stage, 21/06/2016

Where and when?

Dundee Rep Theatre, Dundee from Thursday June 9, 2016, until Saturday June 25, 2016. More info: www.dundeereptheatre.co.uk

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