Much Ado About Nothing

Synopsis: Video recording of William Hutt’s 1971 production of Much Ado About Nothing for the Shakespeare (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Kenneth Welsh is Benedick and Jane Casson is Beatrice.
Language: English
Country: Canada
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 7 Jun 1971

Director

William Hutt

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Harry Freedman

Production Design

Alan Barlow

Cast

Theatre: Festival Theatre, Stratford, Ontario
Theatre company: Shakespeare (Stratford) Theatre Company
Production type: Stage Recordings
Historical period: 19th Century
Plays: Much Ado About Nothing
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival

History: Produced by the Stratford, Ontario, Festival on tour at the Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 24 February-13 March 1971; and on the Festival Stage, Stratford, CT, 7 June-16 October 1971.
Stills: `Designer Alan Barlow collaborated with a rich arabesque of art nouveau decor and Aubrey Beardsley dress, transforming the bare platform at Stratford into a place of vines and trellises, stained glass and peacocks, the habitat of ladies gowned like flowers or dragon flies, officers in chocolate-box uniforms, and gentlemen clothed
with modish flare’. [Berners W. Jackson, op cit].
Reviews: Barnes, Clive. New York Times 9 June 1971, p. 52.
Jackson, Berners W. Shakespeare Quarterly 22 (1971): 368-70.