Dazzling wit, perfect comedy, dangerous possibilities and cruel deceits, Much Ado is deservedly beloved of audiences worldwide. Sport for Jove’s new production, directed by the wonderful Samantha Young (Away, 2016), challenges the play's darkest edges, while celebrating its extraordinary liveliness and tumultuous couplings – Benedick and Beatrice, Hero and Claudio – along with the eccentric community that
orbits them.

Don Pedro’s army is home, and so the war begins – can women trust men, can men recognise women, can love be defined by something more than words?