This production was captured by Digital Theatre live at Wyndham's Theatre in London’s West End.
Tennant and Tate sparkle in Much Ado.
The Guardian
Much Ado About Nothing played to sold-out houses and received wide critical acclaim prior to being filmed for onine streaming. Directed by Josie Rourke, it starred David Tennant as Benedick and Catherine Tate as Beatrice.
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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
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.
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 John
TOM BATEMAN – Claudio
ANNA FARNWORTH – Imogen
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
JOHN RAMM – Dogberry
MIKE GRADY – Verges
CLIVE HAYWARD – Hugh Oatcake
NICHOLAS LUMLEY – George Seacoal
CLIVE HAYWARD – Friar Francis
ENZO SQUILLINO JNR. – Sexton
HANNAH WARREN-GREEN – Maria
CREATIVES
JOSIE ROURKE – Director
ROB JONES – Designer
PETER MUMFORD – Lighting
MICHAEL BRUCE – Composer
EMMA LAXTON – Sound Designer
GEORGINA LAMB – Movement
ALASTAIR COOMER CDG – Casting Director
ROBERT HASTIE – Associate Director