Acclaimed director Simon Godwin (Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra) features Katherine Parkinson (Home, I'm Darling, The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (A Gentleman in Moscow, Dracula, She Stoops to Conquer) in a hilarious new twist to a much-loved comedy.
Set in the 1930s on the Italian Riviera, Beatrice and Benedick jostle and parry through the National Theatre’s popular new production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado.
A live performance in London was filmed in 2022 and transmitted around the US and to other countries in 2023, through NTLive.
