Much Ado About Nothing
- Synopsis
- A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1988 studio production of Much Ado About Nothing set in the 1950s. Directed by Di Trevis with Clive Merrison as Benedick and Maggie Steed as Beatrice. Ralph Fiennes plays Claudio.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 4 Jan 1988
- Duration
- 162 mins
Credits
- Director
- Di Trevis
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Dominic Muldowney
- Production Design
- Mark Thompson
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Historical period
- 1950s
- Plays
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- General
- "Di Trevis has turned Messina into a fashionable Fifties Lido, where the ladies lounge around in sun suits and bathing costumes that beg for Vogue to put them on its cover." Jack Tinker, Daily Mail (14 April 1988).
- Figures
- Press night 13 April 1988. The production transferred to the Barbican.
- Stills
- Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
- Reviews
- Smallwood, Robert Shakespeare Quarterly 40 (1989) pp 83-94 (review article).
Production Company
- 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
Archive
- Name
Shakespeare Birthplace Collections
- collections@shakespeare.org.uk
- Web
- https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/collections/ External site opens in new window
- Address
- Shakespeare Centre
Henley Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
CV37 6QW
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av38129 (Accessed 25 Nov 2024)