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Mucho Ruido in Mexico

28 Thursday Sep 2017

Posted by la Clarina in Theatre

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Beatriz Romilly, Globe theatre, Matthew Dunster, Mexican Revolution, Much Ado About Nothing, shakespeare

So, I was at the Globe for Matthew Dunster’s “Mexican” production of Much Ado About Nothing,and loved it.

Let’s begin with the time-travel quality of just entering the place, climbing up the wooden stairs (we opted for the gallery benches – with cushions), watching from above the groundlings standing in the pit… Oh, the thrill of it!

And then the play itself: lively, colourful, full of song and music, with touches of that kind of melancholy, angry lust for love and life that goes with wartime – given that the setting is the Mexican Revolution… Continue reading →

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