Much Ado About Nothing (MTC), at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner – theatre review
Insults, treachery and love are interchangeable in this new, modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, which crackles with absurdity and wit. It centres around the vicissitudes faced by two couples feted to be together, but not before a whole heap of melodrama. I speak of the acerbic Beatrice (Alison Bell) and aristocratic soldier…