That William Shakespeare bloke gets around a bit for someone who has been dead for 399 years.
Britain’s most popular playwright seems to pop up everywhere you look.
He’s good like that.
From Tuesday July 21 to Sunday August 2 you will be able to catch a special outdoor performance of Much Ado About Nothing at the Old Schools Quadrangle at The Bodleian Library. You don’t get many venues as impressive as that. It’s perfect for Shakespeare.
And it’s being put on by The Globe Theatre in partnership with Oxford Playhouse and the Bodleian Library.
The play is directed by Max Webster, designed by James Cotterill and composed by John Barber.
It’s a pretty complicated love story. Shakespeare likes things like that.
Claudio loves Hero and Hero loves Claudio and nothing seems capable of keeping them apart. Benedick loves Beatrice and Beatrice loves Benedick, but (because neither will admit it) nothing seems capable of bringing them together. Only the intrigues of a resentful prince can force Benedick to question his loyalty and prove where his love lies.
Driven along by a romance all the more charming for being in denial, Much Ado About Nothing is a miracle of comic and dramatic suspense and gives us, in the bantering Beatrice and Benedick, one of Shakespeare’s wittiest and most endearing pairs of lovers.
The play takes place at 7.45pm on each evening, apart from Saturdays at 7.30pm, with a 2.30pm matinee on the Sundays.
For tickets, which cost £22.50 or £20.50 visit the playhouse website at www.oxfordplayhouse.com
The Ocelot is offering reduced ticket prices for ¬£12.50 - Quote ‘MuchOcelot’ with the ticket office at 01865 305305 or use it as your coupon code online to claim the special price for Tuesday July 21 and Wednesday July 22.