
International Theatre Database
Category
Play
Country
United Kingdom
Run Dates
Dec 7, 2006 - Jan 6, 2007
Venue
Run Time
162 minutes
2006.12.07 ~ 2007.01.06
Novello Theatre
2006.05.11 ~ 2006.10.12
RSC
Premiere
Marianne Elliott’s Cuban set production of Much Ado About Nothing was performed as part of the RSC’s Complete Works Festival (2006-2007) and opened at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in May 2006, before transferring to Newcastle Upon Tyne and the Novello Theatre, London. The production was set specifically in 1953 before the Cuban revolution which brought Fidel Castro to power. Marianne Elliott, the Director, felt that the pre-Castro Cuba setting had suitable resonance for the play with its Catholicism, imperialism and male code of honour.