by Stacey Stratton & Alicia McCartney
Cedarville University’s production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing offers its audiences wit, wordplay, and wonder. Condensed and adapted by Cedarville’s director, Stacey Stratton, and students from the Performing Shakespeare course, the show’s entertaining repartee is appropriate for all audiences. The fast-paced play is presented in an intimate setting with all seating placed on the stage itself. With antics aplenty, patrons will experience up-close and personal moments with the show’s characters.
The play follows a bantering, headstrong couple who rail against love, and a second couple who run (somewhat disastrously) headlong into it. The first couple fall for the matchmaking schemes of their friends, while the couple who fell for love at first sight are separated by an evil plot that can only be resolved by the town’s hilarious constable and her crew. A classic tale of male-female miscommunication, Much Ado’s themes — love, jealousy, and second chances — remind audiences why the Bard is still the greatest English playwright of all time.
Much Ado About Nothing runs from Thursday, April 13-Sunday, April 23, in the DeVries Theatre at the showtimes below:
- Thursday, April 13 @ 8 p.m.
- Friday, April 14 @ 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.
- Saturday, April 15 @ 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.
- Thursday, April 20 @ 10 a.m.
- Friday, April 21 @ 8 p.m.
- Saturday, April 22 @ 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.
- Sunday, April 23 @ 3 p.m.
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