The course of true love never runs smooth in one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies. Beatrice and Benedick conduct their courtship through sarcasm and verbal sparring. The younger Claudio and Hero, meanwhile, find their heady romance cruelly compromised by the villainous Don John, who’s determined to stop them tying the knot...

Fresh from his tenure as artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, Michael Longhurst takes the helm of this imaginative new version of the bard’s oft-performed romcom. 

Its action is relocated to the world of top-flight football and celebrity culture, ‘where scandal-filled rivalries are the hottest new thing, and lads and WAGs collide’. 

Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who) and Nick Blood (Day Of The Jackal, Slow Horses) top-bill as Beatrice and Benedick.

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