The Globe’s 2007 production of Much Ado About Nothing

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The Globe’s exciting and innovative production of Much Ado About Nothing played to over 6,000 enraptured pupils in March 2007 and was considered a great success by the audiences and The Globe Education team.

The MP3 audio recording of this production can be downloaded by teachers and used as a classroom resource and by individual pupils for listening to on a MP3 player. In addition to the play, there are interviews with the director and the actors playing Beatrice, Benedick, Leonato and Don Pedro, who provide insights into the play’s themes, characters and language.
 
Teachers and pupils will find this resource an exciting way of engaging with this play and it will support revision for the National Curriculum tests.

Click on the links below to listen to the play and interviews via live audio streaming. In the downloads section at the bottom you will find the MP3 audio recordings of the play and interviews, one zip file containing transcripts and a cast list, and another containing photographs of the production.

Live audio stream, downloadable recordings and images of 'Much Ado about Nothing' are courtesy of the Shakespeare’s Globe Trust on behalf of the Shakespeare Globe Trading Limited © 2007. Used with kind permission.

Live audio streaming links:

• The Globe’s 2007 production of Much Ado About Nothing
• An interview with the director
• An interview with Benedick
• An interview with Beatrice
• An interview with Don Pedro
• An interview with Leonato

Interior Fish Eye Stage right Comedy of Errors 2006 © Shakespeare’s Globe Trust. Photographed by John Tramper.