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Article: Nothing doing for Long Beach Shakespeare Company
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- Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
- Article date:
- September 10, 2009
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Mix the power of suggestion with jealousy and you have a lethal
Shakespearean brew.
But what if you're not doing "Othello," but a romantic comedy
called "Much Ado About Nothing"?
That's the problem director Helen Borgers faced - she wasn't the
first one - in preparing the Long Beach Shakespeare Company
production of the play that opens tonight in the Richard Goad
Theatre.
"Much Ado About Nothing" is full of fun and wit, and then all of
a sudden, there's a shocking scene involving the main characters
that could come from one of Shakespeare's tragedies.
"That is a very heavy thing in the play, which up until that
point has been delightfully lighthearted," said Borgers, in a phone
interview ...