Handlebards Present Much Ado About Nothing
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Pedalling from venue to venue with all of their set, props and costumes on the back of their bikes, The HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of actors who are spending the summer bringing environmentally sustainable Shakespeare to venues across the UK.
Date: 26th - 28th June 2025
Time: 7pm - 9.30pm
📍 Painswick Rococo Gardens
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Join the troupe at Painswick Rococo Garden for a bicycle-powered production of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ like you’ve never seen before. In usual HandleBards style, expect riotous amounts of energy, a fair old whack of chaos, and a great deal of laughter.
And what’s the play about? Well – a group of soldiers return from the war to a household in Messina, kindling new love interests and re-kindling old rivalries. The parallel love stories of Beatrice, Benedick, Claudio and Hero quickly become entangled with scheming, frivolity and melodrama in Shakespeare’s famous comedy.
★★★★★ – “The HandleBards’ Much Ado About Nothing delivers on everything” –Liverpool Echo
