Experience: 9/10
aka Much Ado About Nothing
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Christopher Luscombe
Venue: RST
Date: Wednesday 29th October 2014
Brilliant. We’d heard from one or two sources that this version of Much Ado had been altered to make it fit into the Love’s Labour’s Lost mould, and that it was less enjoyable as a result. Not a bit of it. We realised early on that the impact of the Great War was being completely ignored, and that the play’s lightness and jollity were intact, even if the text had been well trimmed. The set was basically the same, although there were some different locations, and with the passing of four years, the style of the costumes had altered to fit.
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