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About the Show

A gossip-fueled Shakespeare comedy of rivalry, deception, and reluctant romance.

Set in Messina after a military victory, the story follows two contrasting couples: Beatrice and Benedick, who trade insults while resisting their mutual attraction, and Claudio and Hero, whose swift engagement is threatened by deception and public accusation. Misdelivered messages, deliberate trickery, and overheard conversations drive the action as reputations are tested and relationships are reshaped.

This production is directed by Chelsea Walker (All’s Well That Ends Well at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe). Music is by Angus MacRae, with design by Sami Fendall.

The production runs at the Globe Theatre as part of Shakespeare’s Globe season, with scheduled captioned, relaxed, British Sign Language–interpreted, and audio described performances throughout the engagement.

Critic Reviews (7)

"All is put right in time for the sort of collectively joyful curtain call that defines the Globe at its very best, of which this Much Ado — opening just in time for the summer solstice — is a shining example."
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"There's newfound depth and heaps of humour in Chelsea Walker's stylish new staging of the beloved Shakespeare play."
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"In its charms it is winning: insuppressibly crowd-pleasing, eminently worth seeing."
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"In Pippa Nixon’s Beatrice and Ken Nwosu’s Benedick, it gives us one of the most charming accounts of Shakespeare’s sparring partners this decade."
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"A delicately calibrated and confident treat."
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"Warm and airy as a summer breeze."
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"From an audience member's perspective it seems to set up a tonal imbalance for the production which veers between the effervescent and the chilling."
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