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
Credits
- Director
- Gregory Doran
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Paul Englishby
- Production Design
- Stephen Brimson Lewis
- Cast
Additional Details
- Theatre
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre
- Theatre company
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Historical period
- 1930s
- Plays
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- 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).
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/av71898 (Accessed 13 Dec 2024)