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ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AND PICTUREHOUSE ENTERTAINMENT TO BROADCAST PRODUCTIONS LIVE FROM STRATFORD-UPON-AVON AT THE NOMAD PLAYHOUSE:
LOVE’S LABOUR’S WON: (or Much Ado About Nothing)
We are excited to bring the Royal Shakespeare Company to the Nomad Playhouse! These fabulous productions are performed in Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon and we are incredibly fortunate to be able to share them with you at the Nomad.
Long time collaborator with the RSC Christopher Luscombe, will direct one acting company in both Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (usually known as Much Ado About Nothing).
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.
