Location
Bicentennial Park, Glebe Foreshore
See the location map and amenities map for the specific location of the festival within Bicentennial Park. Synopsis
Loaded with mismatched lovers, squabbling brothers, comic constables and bawdy humour, Much Ado About Nothing is a boisterous celebration of love as well as a sobering examination of misinterpretation, dishonesty and deception. Young lovers Hero and Claudio are to be married in a week. To pass the time they conspire with Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, to set a 'lovers’ trap' for Benedick, a self-confessed ‘tyrant to women’, and the independent and forthright Beatrice, his favourite sparring partner. Meanwhile, Don Pedro’s half-brother, the devious Don John, conspires to break up the wedding. Rapier wit and cutting observation; lies, laughter and love with a stiff dose of betrayal. Such is the emotional arsenal deployed for Shakespeare's strategic guide to the war between the sexes.
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