Much Ado About Nothing Tickets

Much Ado About Nothing Description

Much Ado About Nothing – Witty, argumentative and great fun!

In a real Shakespearian soap opera, the young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to force the dedicated singles Benedick and Beatrice to acknowledge their real feelings and get married. At the same time others are conspiring to break Hero and Claudio up and ruin their romance. Will they wed? Or will two potentially beautiful love affairs end in tears?

Much Ado About Nothing - The story

The scene? Messina, on the Italian island of Sicily, at the palace of the Governor, Leonato. Leonato’s sweet daughter Hero has fallen truly, madly and deeply in love with the soldier Claudio, and her feelings are reciprocated by the shy young man. Beatrice, Leonato’s other daughter, is older, wiser and more cynical and despite her blossoming feelings for Benedick, another soldier and war hero, she refuses to admit to being in love.

Enter the villain Don John, who is jealous of Claudio’s heroism and spends much of the play doing his best to ruin his relationship with the lovely Hero. Benedick and Beatrice don’t need Don John’s help – they are busy ruining their own relationship with endless quarrelling, arguing and back-biting.

Claudio rejects Hero at the altar, accusing her of being unchaste. The awful Don Pedro supports Claudio. Benedick, who was the most cynical early on, takes the side of Hero and his future wife Beatrice. Benedick challenges Claudio to a duel for slandering Hero. Leonato lies in public, stating that the lovely Hero has actually died of grief over the false accusations.

As the rumours, fibs, lies and exaggerations fly, Hero’s innocence is brought to light by the ridiculous and unlikely hero of the play, Dogberry. The prickly Benedick and Beatrice end up falling deeply in love and the younger couple also stays together despite everyone’s efforts. Against all the odds, both couples end up happily married.

If it sounds wonderfully chaotic and silly, that’s because it is! Shakespeare outdoes himself in this play, putting the hapless Dogberry in the position of hero as he unwittingly discovers Don John’s machinations and ends up saving the day. Like all Shakespeare’s plays the language is rich and full of flavour, much easier to understand live on stage than in a dry book, hugely entertaining and a great introduction to Britain’s best-loved fifteenth century superhero of a playwright.

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