REVIEW: Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s Globe (2022)
Italian style and comedy in Much Ado "I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. " Beatrice Lucy Phelps as Beatrice…
Italian style and comedy in Much Ado "I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. " Beatrice Lucy Phelps as Beatrice…
Along the way we are treated to spirited performances. The casual way Emer McDaid's Romaine Vole steals a cigarette from Sir Wilfrid tells us what a wrong'un she is and her accent is a master class in doing the quintessential European femme fatale. Joe McNamara's Leonard Vole is a man on the edge in more ways than one. Jonathan Firth's Sir Wilfrid is a master of words but it is his face that shows his torment when his courtroom victory turns out to be... anything but.
The performances are tip top. Never for a moment do you see Johnathan Slinger as anything other than this shambolic, stressed, impulsive and maladroit academic and Rosie Sheehy is a great find making the journey of the play from failing underconfident student to assertive and eloquent woman. Do not miss this play!