Opening this weekend: ANNA WHEATLEY in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Chichester Festival Theatre which will play along with LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST from the 29th of September.

Winter 1918. A group of soldiers return from the trenches. The world-weary Benedick and his friend Claudio find themselves reacquainted with Beatrice and Hero. As memories of conflict give way to a life of parties and masked balls, Claudio and Hero fall madly, deeply in love, while Benedick and Beatrice reignite their own altogether more combative courtship.

Shakespeare’s comic romance plays out amidst the brittle high spirits of a post-war house party, as youthful passions run riot, lovers are deceived and happiness is threatened – before peace ultimately wins out.

One of the most popular comedies in the English language, Much Ado About Nothing was possibly known in Shakespeare’s lifetime as Love’s Labour’s Won.

Both plays stay at the Festival Theatre until the 29th October before visiting Manchester Opera House for two weeks from the 21st November; and ending it’s run at the Haymarket Theatre, London on the 18th of March 2017.