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directed by Kaile Shilling
Director Kaile Shilling locates the play on a riverboat in Dixie. Despite this revision, she chooses to preserve the original text, with all its context, save one or two lines adapted to read "The South" instead of "Messina." This leads to baffling conundrums: where do you find the balconies and...
The relocation of the action adds nothing to the play. Renaissance Italy and the nineteenth-century South share frivolous aristocrats and a conservative marriage ethic, but this is not enough to justify the change of scene. Perhaps there is an obscure reference to the Southern psyche--but to the uninitiated...
Yet Shilling clearly intends to make her presence felt as a director. For example, when Claudio and Don Pedro fool the eavesdropping Benedick with a fake conversation, she has the messenger (Bloom) fishing in the background. By snaring the innocent fish with his bait, he parallels the action unfolding in...
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy in that it has a happy ending. But like all Shakespeare's comedies, it is not just good clean fun: it is tragedy narrowly averted. When Hero dies and comes to life again, Shilling takes the easy way out in dealing with the...