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Dauntless City Theatre returns for a fifth year of “Bard in Berczy” with MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, directed by Eric Benson (Assistant Director of Stratford’s Henry V, Hosanna, The Pirates of Penzance). Audiences follow this immersive production around Berczy Park on foot, experiencing a gender-bending twist on Shakespeare’s classic comedy that brings it right into modern-day Toronto.
Of the thirteen roles in the play, only three are traditionally cast, opening up many iconic roles to talented women, and centring a queer relationship between Hero and Claudio, both played by men in this staging. Fast-talking Benedick - traditionally the leading man of this play - is Kate Werneburg (Shakespeare Bash’d’s King John; Lemon Bucket Orkestra’s Counting Sheep), opposite Chanakya Mukherjee (Shakespeare in Action’s Macbeth in Action; Hart House Theatre’s Much Ado About Nothing) as Beatrice.
Dauntless City Theatre makes progressive and inclusive classical theatre, bringing iconic plays to new audiences through non-traditional casting and unusual performance venues. They have been judiciously editing and adatipng classical work to challenge misogyny and racism for over five years, and are best known for their outdoor immersive promenade productions of Shakespeare, most recently in Berczy Park and St. James’ Park (The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labours Lost, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, and The Two Gentlewomen of Verona). www.dauntlesscitytheatre.com.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Venue: Berczy Park, 35 Wellington Street East, Toronto (behind the Flaron Building). The audience follows the show around the park on foot - comfortable shoes are a good idea! The show is accessible to users of mobility devices. Please contact us if you have specific quesons.
Dates: August 3 - August 26. Performances Fridays at 7:30, Saturdays at 1:00 and 7:30, and Sundays at 1:00 (no performance August 10).
Tickets: Pay What You Can (PWYC) by donation
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2018-07-25
Toronto: Dauntless City Theatre presents a non-traditional "Much Ado About Nothing" August 3-26