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Article: 'Much Ado' about sparkling Shakespeare
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- Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
- Article date:
- September 15, 2009
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Shakespeare wrote a bunch of great plays; we can all agree on
that.
But when it comes to titles, sometimes he was a little bit weak.
Maybe the title had to be used for publicity long before he
finished. Maybe, once he was finished, he didn't really care.
"Much Ado About Nothing," which opened over the weekend at the
Long Beach Shakespeare company's Richard Goad Theatre in Bixby
Knolls, is one of those plays. You know it's a comedy, but which
one?
Save the suspense: It's the play about Beatrice and Benedick, the
young would-be lovers who are so caught up in their battle of wits
they don't recognize the underlying attraction. They are so busy
jabbing each other, fighting with words they only ...
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... ... 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 ...
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