Stratford Festival: Much Ado About Nothing is really something else with a little Shields added to the Shakespeare
I mean that in terms of the exceedingly high quality of its performances, direction and design that has some folks already talking about it as a shoo-in for future lists of all-time greatest Stratford shows.: Some small but significant textual additions by the classically inclined feminist playwright Erin Shields that make thisdifferent from others that have come before – and, I hope this isn’t too sacrilegious to say, more satisfying as a piece of drama.
It’s Don Pedro , Leonato and the young Claudio who endeavour to get this stubborn pair of singles together. If Abbey scores slightly higher in hilarity by hamming it up to just under the legal limit, Beaty’s performance slightly surpasses his performance in depth. Her alternately aching and edgy Beatrice is aware of the unfairness towards women in the society she is stuck in and, heartbreakingly, finds it nearly impossible to ignore it long enough to let herself love.
But the dialogue judiciously added into final scene here expands Shakespeare’s characters and is not at cross purposes with his intentions.
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