‘Sigh no more, ladies - men were deceivers ever.’
Shakespeare’s comic romance plays out amidst the brittle high spirits of a post-war house party, as youthful passions run riot, lovers are deceived and happiness is threatened – before peace ultimately wins out.
One of the most popular comedies in the English language, Much Ado About Nothing was possibly known in Shakespeare’s lifetime as Love’s Labour’s Won.
Following a 2014 run in Stratford-upon-Avon and a subsequent in Chichester, the RSC Chichester Festival Theatre productions of the heart-warming double bill Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing (or Love's Labour's Won) will transfer to the Theatre Royal Haymarket for a limited season.
Book your Much Ado About Nothing RSC tickets, playing at The Theatre Royal Haymarket today.
Autumn 1918. A group of soldiers return from the trenches. The world-weary Benedick and his friend Claudio find themselves reacquainted with Beatrice and Hero. As memories of conflict give way to a life of parties and masked balls, Claudio and Hero fall madly, deeply in love, while Benedick and Beatrice reignite their own altogether more combative courtship.
Casting has been announced for the RSC's pairing of Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing (or Love's Labour's Won) which arrives in London this Christmas at the Theatre Royal Haymarket following runs at the Chichester Festival Theatre and Manchester Opera House.
The productions play in rep from 9 December 2016 to 18 March 2017, with an official opening on 17 December.