MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Name: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Start: 2026-06-22T00:00:00
End: 2026-10-24T23:59:00
Location: Shakespeare's Globe

Run Dates

2026.06.22 ~ 2026.10.24

Shakespeare's Globe

About the show

Sharp tongues and savage gossip fuel a messy, magnetic attraction in this new production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing in the Globe Theatre. The war is over, but the battle for love is just beginning. Beatrice has sworn off men, but there’s something about Benedick she just can’t leave alone. Meanwhile, beneath Messina’s polished surface, secrets slip, gossip runs wild and reputations hang by a thread. Everyone’s saving face – and nobody’s doing it very well. Set in a sun-soaked world of style and status, where image is everything and late-night parties blur into dawn, Chelsea Walker’s (All’s Well That Ends Well, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Globe) Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s most incisive romantic comedies. An unfiltered look at bad behaviour, second chances, and recovering from old wounds.

Details

CAST Geraldine Alexander – Sister Matilda Bailes – Margaret Marlowe Chan-Reeves – Borachio Fia Hadeed – Ensemble / Cover Joshua John – Claudio Assa Kanouté – Hero Richard Katz – Dogberry Kaffe Keating – Seacoal / Messenger / Cover Os Leanse – Verges Adam Long – Don Pedro Jonathan McGuinness – Leonato Pippa Nixon – Beatrice Ken Nwosu – Benedick Joseph Potter – Don John MUSICIAN Zands Duggan – Musical Director / Percussion Maddie Cutter – Cello Zosia Jagodzinska – Cello Richard Phillips – Cello Charlie Laffer – Guitar CREATIVE TEAM Playwright – William Shakespeare Director – Chelsea Walker Designer – Sami Fendall Composer – Angus MacRae Movement Director – Aline David Fight Director – Kevin McCurdy Intimacy Director – Lucy Fennell Voice and Text – Annemette Verspeak Casting Director – Becky Paris CDG

Where it's been performed

Shakespeare's Globe

London

United Kingdom