Royal Shakespeare Company: Love's Labour's Won (or Much Ado About Nothing)
The Nomad Playhouse
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Love’s Labour’s Won (or Much Ado About Nothing)
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.
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 the day.
Christopher Luscombe directs the second of Shakespeare’s matching pair of comedies that rejoice in our capacity to find love in the most unlikely places. Better known as Much Ado About Nothing, the play is performed under the title Love’s Labour’s Won, a name possibly given to it during Shakespeare’s lifetime.
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