Much Ado About Nothing

Synopsis: Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2002 production of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Gregory Doran. Harriet Walter is Beatrice and Nicholas Le Prevost is Benedick.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 18 Jun 2002
Duration: 158 mins

General: Barber, Hayward, Morris and Snell alternated the role of Boy; it is not known who played the part in this recording.
History: Produced at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 9 May-13 July 2002; and at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 27 July-22 August 2002.
Stills: 'The play is located in Messina, and Doran’s production more pointedly places the proceedings in Fascist Sicily in the 1930s. The demobbed black-shirted soldiers who troop on to Stephen Brimson Lewis’s warmly lit, terracotta courtyard are evidently just returned from Mussolini’s conquest of Abyssinia’. {Paul Taylor, The Independent, 15 May 2002).
Reviews: Jackson, Russell. Shakespeare Quarterly 54 (2003), pp. 167-85 (in review-article); Dobson, Michael. Shakespeare Survey 56 (2003), pp. 256-86 (especially 267-69).

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

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