Much Ado About Nothing
- Synopsis
- A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1990 production of Much Ado About Nothing. Directed by Bill Alexander with Roger Allam as Benedick and Susan Fleetwood as Beatrice.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 18 Jan 1991
- Duration
- 180 mins
Credits
- Director
- Bill Alexander
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Ilona Sekacz
- Production Design
- Kit Surrey
- Cast
Additional Details
- Theatre
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre
- Theatre company
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Historical period
- Elizabethan
- Plays
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- A recording was also made 21 June 1991 at the Barbican.
- History
- Press night 10 April 1990
- 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
- Holland, Peter. Shakespeare Survey 44 (1992), pp 157-90 (esp. 170-72).
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/av38153 (Accessed 25 Nov 2024)