Much Ado About Nothing

By William Shakespeare

PTC on Tour: 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27 July and 1,2,9,10 August

Directed by Stuart Watson

I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Bantering bachelor Benedick's "merry war" of words with witty Beatrice seems fated to keep them apart, provoking their scheming friends to plot a happy ending for the quarrelsome couple.

Meanwhile bashful young Claudio loves sweet, naïve Hero and is loved in return.  Nothing, it seems, can prevent their marriage.  But the path of true love never runs smooth.  Foul play is afoot as devious  Don John plots to split the young lovers asunder.

Putney Theatre Company On Tour brings Shakespeare's dazzling comedy of romance, deceit and self-discovery to open-air venues around southwest London and beyond.  This concise, rollicking, sunny production will be "as merry as the day is long."

PTC on Tour - Explained

This production marks a new kind of project for the company as PTC go "on tour" to venues around London (we have produced open air shows in the past, some of which have been performed at two venues, but this will be our longest tour by far).

We have arranged 10 performances over 5 weekends at 6 open-air venues, which are:

Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th July: Lillington and Longmoore Gardens, Pimlico

Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th July: The Winchester House Club, Putney

Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th July: St Margaret's Church, Putney

Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd August: Surrey Docks Farm, Rotherhithe

Saturday 9th August: The Hurlingham Club, Fulham

Sunday 10th  August: St Mary's Church, Mortlake