Back when Seinfeld was on the tee-vee every week, Jerry and the other creators took pride in claiming that their show 'was about nothing.'
Back when Seinfeld was on the tee-vee every week, Jerry and the other creators took pride in claiming that their show"was about nothing." They tried to convince us it was unique when, in fact, they got beat by that old scamp Will Shakespeare and his delightful comedy Much Ado About Nothing.
Derick Winger gives a sharp portrayal as Don Pedro, and Holly Humes makes Leonata a force all her own. But the yarn involving Don John's nasty deceptions unravels due to a weak performance at the core of the story. As Claudio, Christian Achkar strikes a noble pose and a strong profile, but he often disappears due to a general lack of vocal heft and a tendency to let his energy dissipate at the ends of his sentences.
To wit, here's Benedick on a possible relationship with Beatrice:"So some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face." And Beatrice replies:"Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such a face as yours." That's mic-drop stuff in the 16th century, and damn funny as performed by Knox and Burgler.
A comic subplot involving Constable Dogberry and his clueless band of deputies offers some amusing relief, with Ryan Zarecki working hard as Dogberry. This expert at stage fighting regularly attacks each of his lines like a foe to be defeated, and that can grow tiresome.
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