This production began performances on 15th May and closed on 3rd September 2011.
Tennant and Tate sparkle in Much Ado
The Guardian
Two young lovers Claudio and Hero are to be married imminently but the devious scheming of a resentful Prince looks set to thwart the nuptials. Meanwhile, marriage seems inconceivable for reluctant lovers Beatrice (Catherine Tate) and Benedick (David Tennant) whose endless witty sparring threatens to keep them apart forever.
Rourke’s production has a freshness and a wit that is often irresistible… A mixture of slapstick and flight that reduces the audience to a state of blissful hilarity.
The Daily Telegraph
Starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.
There is much to love here and nothing to fault
Daily Mirror
CAST
In order of speaking:
JONATHAN COY – Leonato
LEO STAAR – Messenger
CATHERINE TATE – Beatrice
SARAH MACRAE – Hero
ADAM JAMES – Don Pedro
DAVID TENNANT – Benedick
ELLIOT LEVEY – Don Jon
TOM BATEMAN – Claudio
ANNA FARNWORTH – Innogen
LEE KNIGHT – Conrade
ALEX BECKETT – Borachio
JOSHUA BERG – Titus
NATALIE THOMAS – Margaret
KATHRYN HUNT – Ursula
DEREK HOWARD – Angelo
MARIO MARIN-BORQUEZ – Boy
BAILEY PEPPER – Boy
EUGENE LEWIS – Boy
ENZO SQUILLINO JNR. – Balthasar/Sexton
JOHN RAMM – Dogberry
MIKE GRADY – Verges
CLIVE HAYWARD – Hugh Oatcake/Friar Francis
NICHOLAS LUMLEY – George Seacoal
HANNAH WARREN-GREEN – Maria
CREATIVES
JOSIE ROURKE – Director
ROB JONES – Designer
PETER MUMFORD – Lighting Designer
MICHAEL BRUCE – Composer
EMMA LAXTON – Sound Desigmer
GEORGINA LAMB – Movement
ALASTAIR COOMER CDG – Casting Director
ROBERT HASTIE – Associate Director