Much ado About Nothing Theatre Royal Haymarket

Much Ado About Nothing Theatre Royal Haymarket

 THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET, LONDON SW1Y 4HT

Much ado About Nothing Theatre Royal Haymarket: I grew up believing that Shakespeare was the classical music of the Thespian world, plays and sonnets written for the upper class, who have the intelligence to comprehend the complicated script and an strange speak, not as popular as musicals or film adaptations, so I avoided Shakespeare when it was on the list of productions to choose from. In hindsight that is completely ignorant, in fact in the 1500s Shakespeare was a popular writer in fact drinking and partying was going on in the theater even as the plays were being performed. So when I was asked by a friend, if I’d like to see his latest production of much ado About Nothing, it really was with some trepidation wondering if Shakespeare combined with my jet-lag from Mexico would put me to sleep, which would have been the greatest insult of all. Well was I wrong! So the taxi arrives at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the West End of London where much Ado About Nothing was being performed, I was met by very smartly dresses man ticket in hand. My seat number was Row C Seat Unlucky 13 however my got my seat I realised that 13 had become my new Lucky number I was pretty much centre stage, with an uninterrupted view to all the action. Visiting the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the West End of London is a treat in itself. The story is simple yet complicated, why, typical to Shakespeare there are several stories, okay so a character called Benedick has an antagonistic relationship with the girl called Beatrice, in fact if you like Downton Abbey you’re going to love this as it to is set in the 1920s as the troops return from the First World War,  and through some harmless fun from their friends they are tricked into opening up the hearts to allow the love to start to grow. This is the light-heated part that keeps you glued to the stage whilst the more sinister plot which involves the slander or young maiden on her wedding day starts to broil into a chauvinistic ego driven rage, you have to remember that this is written in the 1500s, all this interacted with a sort, perfectly timed musical tease, Anyway I’m not going to ruin the story but the truth be known you seen this classic tale in many film or TV drama.After the interval the Royal Shakespeare Company ingeniously added slapstick to Shakespeare’s humorous script to lighten the mood, then starts to bring the two plots to their gradual finale!

In conclusion, just fantastic I do have two favorite characters of the play as Butler and the police man however most of the production was well cast, In fact your what to watch this twice as it rally is great theatrical entertainment and you know what, I might just do that!