Standard Theatre Awards winner Hayley Atwell: ‘Winning for Shakespeare feels important’

Winner of the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress, Hayley Atwell still can’t believe the fun she had on Much Ado About Nothing

“I had no idea until the first day of rehearsals that there would be dancing. Or that there would be furry heads and a giant pink heart,” says Hayley Atwell. The actor is talking about Jamie Lloyd’s club-anthem-driven, flamingo-tinted revival of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at Drury Lane last year, which required levels of exuberant grooving she’d “never done in public before, sober”.

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