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Much Ado About Nothing
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Mark Ludmon · 1 April 2019
REVIEW: Much Ado About Nothing, New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews Northern Broadsides’ production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing
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Alexa Terry · 17 April 2017
REVIEW: Shit-Faced Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Leicester Square Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Shit-Faced Shakespeare, with the essence of the rustic fringe festival at its heart, is a welcoming night of inebriated indecency which unshackles you from reality.
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About the show
Much Ado About Nothing is currently listed as an ended production in the British Theatre archive.
Much Ado About Nothing is preserved in the British Theatre archive as a historical production.
Verified archive references place the production at Noel Coward Theatre.
British Theatre coverage for this title runs from 9 October 2016 to 1 April 2019.
Venue
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Tube
Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Charing Cross
Train
Charing Cross
Bus
24, 29, 176
Parking
NCP Upper St Martin’s Lane. MasterPark Chinatown and Trafalgar Square (also Q Park scheme).
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Much Ado About Nothing