Much Ado About Nothing
Original music and songs composed for Jonathan Holloway’s adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing set in war torn nineties Sarajevo.
An absorbing ensemble production emphasised the real meat of the text with its threatening atmosphere of humiliation, revenge and the startling brutality that lives behind the smiling mask of Shakespeare’s Sicily.
An electro-acoustic score was realised live with six actor musicians.
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The haunting compositions of composer Sarah Llewellyn, hummed, sung and played live by the multi-talented cast..... In a stroke of genius the well-known ‘Sigh no more, ladies’ is turned into a modern club anthem. The best version of this song that I’ve ever heard, it is worthy of any current song-and-dance pop-group and would surely hit the heights if released as a single
Wendy Attwell for the Shakespeare Revue
Listen to extracts from the show
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Credits
by William Shakespeare
Directed and adapted by Jonathan Holloway
Composer Sarah Llewellyn
Designer William Fricker
Director of Physical comedy Alan Digweed (Tweedy)
Assistant Director Natasha Pryce
Cast Nigel Francis, Dean Leply, Fleur Medi Owen, Chris Porter, Rebecca Pownall and Simon Spencer-Hyde
Red Shift Theatre UK tour Oct 07- April 08
