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The next play in our 2011-2012 Season Fourways will
be
an outdoor
production of
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
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At Wycombe High School, Marlow Hill,
HP11 1TB
on Wed
23rd & Thurs 24th May at 7.30pm
Uplands House, Four Ashes Road, Cryers Hill, HP15
6LB
on Wed 30th
&Thurs 31st May and Fri 1st June at 7.30pm
and Sat 2nd June at 2.30pm and
7.30pm
Tickets
available from the Tourist Information Centre
High Wycombe Library, Eden Centre 01494
421892
or from Fourways
01494 522722
Adults
£14, Concessions £12, Family Tickets £40.
(Family tickets up to 2 adults and 3
children under 14)
Please call Fourways for information about group
bookings.
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The war is over. Pedro Prince of
Aragon, with his followers Benedick and Claudio, visits Leonato, Duke of
Messina, father of Hero and uncle of Beatrice. Claudio falls in love with Hero
and their marriage is agreed upon.
Beatrice and Benedick despise love and engage in comic banter. The
others plot to make them fall in love with each other, by a trick in which
Benedick will overhear his friends talking of Beatrice's supposed secret love
for him, and vice versa.
Meanwhile Don
John, the prince's misanthropic illegitimate brother, contrives a more
malicious plot with the assistance of his follower Borachio: Claudio is led to
believe that he has witnessed Hero in a compromising situation on the night
before her wedding day – in fact it is her maid Margaret with
Borachio.
Claudio denounces Hero during
the marriage ceremony. She faints and on the advice of the Friar, who is
convinced of her innocence, Leonato announces that she is dead. Beatrice
demands that Benedick should kill Claudio. The foolish constable Dogberry and
his watchmen overhear Borachio boasting of his exploit and the plot is
exposed.
Claudio promises to make amends
to Leonato: he is required to marry a cousin of Hero's in her place. When
unmasked, she is revealed as Hero. Beatrice agrees to marry
Benedick.
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The play will be
directed by Barney Powell.
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