Much Ado About Nothing -2011- Wyndham-s Theatre... 90%

(Enter BEATRICE, unseen by the men, but visible to the audience. She stands behind a pillar, listening.)

Here is the full text of the 2011 production of Much Ado About Nothing at the in London’s West End, directed by Josie Rourke . This production is notable for its modern-dress, 1980s-inflected staging, its intimate in-the-round configuration, and its casting of David Tennant as Benedick and Catherine Tate as Beatrice.

(BEATRICE gasps softly. BENEDICK, hidden, leans forward.)

(DOGBERRY and VERGES burst in, dragging BORACHIO and CONRADE.) Much Ado About Nothing -2011- Wyndham-s Theatre...

(DON PEDRO exits. BEATRICE re-enters, drying her hair with a towel from the pool.)

(They drag them off. Spotlight on the tombstone. It reads: “Here Lies Hero – Beloved Daughter.”) Scene 1: The same graveyard, dawn. (LEONATO, ANTONIO, and BENEDICK stand at the tomb.)

(to FRIAR) Let her die. I will not have her shame. (Enter BEATRICE, unseen by the men, but visible

Much deserved on his part, and equally remembered by Don Pedro. He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion.

You kill me to deny it. Farewell, then. I will go hang myself.

(BENEDICK hides. DON PEDRO pretends not to see him.) (BEATRICE gasps softly

(to the tomb) Sweet Hero, now thy image doth appear in the rare semblance that I loved it first. I come to mourn thee. I come to give thee thy epitaph.

A cold? No. A fever.