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Running Times 
Much Ado About Nothing has an approximate running time of 3 hours  including an interval.  

REVIEWS

* * * * * The Sunday Telegraph 
''A production of such flair and fidelity'' 

* * * * The Sunday Times 
"The Globe offers a thoroughly traditional romp as only the Globe can, with giant puppets and musicians playing ouds, serpents and xaphoons." 

* * * * The Sunday Express 
"When a show fires up as this does, there's no better place to be." 

* * * * Financial Times 
"Jeremy Herrin, in his Globe directorial debut, hits the spot: he keeps the laughs coming but also finds room for some of the most intense drama I have seen here."
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* * * * The Telegraph 
''...staged with great wit, imagination and a sense of wonder.'
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* * * * The Independent 
"It's a witty, warm-hearted and emotionally eloquent account of the play that makes the most of the Globe's matchless capacity for a buoyant rapport with the audience." 
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* * * * Daily Mail
" A cracking Much Ado. Eve Best and Charles Edwards are a beautifully balanced Beatrice and Benedick."
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* * * * Daily Express 
"sparkling period piece ... Best is spirited from the start and an absolute natrual on the Globe's stage, effortlessly winning over the groundlings with her lively put-downs."
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* * * * The Evening Standard 
"splendidly spirited production from the ever-improving Globe ... Director Jeremy Herrin brings a useful sharpness and freshness to proceedings."
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* * * * The Times 
"The pair, thoroughly foxy, seasoned stage actors, absolutely triumph in one of the trickiest romances in the canon."

Claudio loves Hero and Hero Claudio and nothing seems capable of tearing them apart. Claudio’s friend Benedick loves Beatrice and Beatrice Benedick, but (because neither will admit it) nothing seems capable of bringing them together. Only the intrigues of a resentful prince force Benedick to prove his love for Beatrice – by killing his best friend.

Driven along by a romance all the more charming for being unacknowledged, Much Ado About Nothing is a miracle of comic and dramatic suspense and gives us, in the bantering Beatrice and Benedick, two of Shakespeare’s wittiest, most lovable pair of lovers.