Much Ado About Nothing
By William Shakespeare
PTC on Tour: 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27 July and 1,2,9,10 August
Directed by Stuart Watson
I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.
Bantering bachelor Benedick's "merry war" of words with witty Beatrice seems fated to keep them apart, provoking their scheming friends to plot a happy ending for the quarrelsome couple.
Meanwhile bashful young Claudio loves sweet, naïve Hero and is loved in return. Nothing, it seems, can prevent their marriage. But the path of true love never runs smooth. Foul play is afoot as devious Don John plots to split the young lovers asunder.
Putney Theatre Company On Tour brings Shakespeare's dazzling comedy of romance, deceit and self-discovery to open-air venues around southwest London and beyond. This concise, rollicking, sunny production will be "as merry as the day is long."