Much Ado About | Nothing -2011- Wyndham-s Theatre...

Here is the full text of the 2011 production of Much Ado About Nothing at the in London’s West End, directed by Josie Rourke . This production is notable for its modern-dress, 1980s-inflected staging, its intimate in-the-round configuration, and its casting of David Tennant as Benedick and Catherine Tate as Beatrice.

Then say what you will do. Do you love her?

I will bring him here. I will make him write an epitaph. And then… he shall marry the ghost of Hero.

With whom?

(to CLAUDIO) Is Signior Benedick still in the house? I pray you, tell him I have a toothache. That will bring him down to laugh at me.

God help us.

How many gentlemen have you lost in this action? Much Ado About Nothing -2011- Wyndham-s Theatre...

(They drag them off. Spotlight on the tombstone. It reads: “Here Lies Hero – Beloved Daughter.”) Scene 1: The same graveyard, dawn. (LEONATO, ANTONIO, and BENEDICK stand at the tomb.)

Yes. Claudio loves Hero. Don Pedro woos her for him. But what if Hero is not so pure? What if, on the very night before the wedding, a man were to climb into her window?

(alive, smiling) One Hero died defiled. But I do live. And now I am pure again. Here is the full text of the 2011

(He exits. BEATRICE stands alone. Blackout. Music: “Blue Monday” by New Order – slow, distorted.) (DOGBERRY and VERGES, two local policemen in ill-fitting 1980s uniforms, enter with flashlights.)

Thou thinkest I am in sport. I pray tell me truly how thou likest her.