Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Stupendously good: Much Ado About Nothing, at the Lyttelton Theatre, reviewed

Plus: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud meet in an excellent new drama of ideas

Ioanna Kimbook (Hero) and Phoebe Horn (Margaret) in Much Ado About Nothing at the National's Lyttelton Theatre. Image: Manuel Harlan 
issue 30 July 2022

Simon Godwin’s Much Ado About Nothing is set in a steamy Italian holiday resort, the Hotel Messina, in the 1920s. A smart move, design-wise. The jazz age was one of those rare moments in history when every member of society, from the lowliest chambermaid to the richest aristocrat, dressed with impeccable style and flair.

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