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Much Ado About Nothing review – frothy fun to please the purists

There’s no whiff of stuffiness in a Sean Holmes production characterised by warm summer euphoria, Elizabethan-era magic and entrancing music

The Guardian - UK

Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe review: this sunkissed production is joyful and intelligent

Amalia Vitale and Ekow Quartey are arch and spirited as the central, wittily unwilling lovers

Evening Standard

Five of the best books about gossip

Cruelty, nosiness, truth-telling: whatever you call it, it appears in every community – and in plenty of works of literature too

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Much Ado About Nothing: National Youth Theatre gives Shakespeare the Love Island treatment

“What’s your type on paper?” is frequently asked by contestants on the popular reality dating show Love Island. “Rich, that’s certaine” responds Benedick, a contestant on “Nothing Island”, who appears to know exactly what he likes. “Wise, or I’ll none”, “virtuous”, “fair”, “mild” – though he concedes he is not…

The Conversation

Much Ado About Nothing review – screwball Shakespeare goes with a swing

Simon Godwin masterfully directs a slick production starring Katherine Parkinson and John Heffernan

The Guardian - UK

Much Ado About Nothing at the National Theatre review: Sorely disappointing

It’s not a bad show, just ponderous and hollow

Evening Standard

Katherine Parkinson: ‘I used to think it was not a big deal being sexually fulfilled... But it’s massively important to your entire being’

The ‘IT Crowd’ and ‘Here We Go’ star is playing Beatrice in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. She talks to Jessie Thompson about using wit as a defence, problematic Shakespeare plays and why female desire is a feminist issue

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Much Ado About Nothing review: A smart, stylish staging

Director Lucy Bailey’s production offers a purely pleasurable evening at the Globe

Evening Standard

Much ado about Doug: second gentleman takes spotlight at Shakespeare debate

Doug Emhoff, Kamala Harris’s husband, argues in a mock trial hosted by the Shakespeare Theatre Company and presided over by Stephen Breyer

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