WEST END 10 FEB – 5 APRIL 2025

Much ado about nothing

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?”

Tom Hiddleston is Benedick and Hayley Atwell is Beatrice. Two of their generation’s finest actors collaborated with director Jamie Lloyd again in this highly celebrated and acclaimed, savagely funny and beautifully tender battle of wits.

This production ran at Theatre Royal Drury Lane from 10 February to 5 April 2025

Marc Brenner

‘GLORIOUSLY GIDDY. BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE’

Daily Telegraph

‘JAMIE LLOYD HIMSELF IS LIKE THE GOD OF MISCHIEF IN CONSTRUCTING THIS PARTY OF PINK SILLINESS.’

The Guardian

‘TRIUMPHANT. AN EVENT WITH A BIG ‘E’

The Standard

‘IMMACULATE. AN ECSTATIC, HILARIOUS MASTERPIECE’

Time Out

‘SIZZLING STAR POWER. AN UTTER DELIGHT’

Sunday Express

‘SIMPLY SUBLIME SHAKESPEARE’

WhatsOnStage

‘A LIFE-AFFIRMING JOY’

Financial Times

‘A TRULY JOYOUS EVENING OF THEATRE’

Broadway World

‘A BIG HEARTED, BOMBASTIC AND UTTERLY BONKERS JOY’

Radio Times

‘RIOTOUS, DISCO-TASTIC, GLEEFULLY GOOFY’

London Theatre

‘A TRIUMPH. YOU’LL LEAVE THE THEATRE DANCING’

The Arts Desk

Tom Hiddleston

BENEDICK

Hayley Atwell

BEATRICE

Mara Huf

HERO

Mika Onyx Johnson

BORACHIO

Gerald Kyd

DON PEDRO

Forbes Masson

LEONATO

Phillip Olagoke

Friar Francis

Mason Alexander Park

MARGARET

James Phoon

CLAUDIO

Tim Steed

DON JOHN

Matt Ray Brown

Understudy Leonato & Friar Francis

Nathaniel Christian

Understudy Claudio & Borachio

Beth Elliott

Understudy Beatrice

Suzie McAdam

Understudy Hero & Margaret

Ed White

Understudy Benedick

Dwayne Wint

Understudy Don Pedro & Don John

Jamie Lloyd

Producer/ Director

Soutra Gilmour

Set & Costume Designer

Jon Clark

Lighting Designer

Ben & Max Ringham

Sound Designers & Composers

Fabian Aloise

Movement Director

Jonathan Glew

Associate Director & Text Editer

Stuart Burt CDG

Casting Director

Carole Hancock

Wigs, Hair & Make Up Designer

Ingrid Mackinnon

Intimacy Co-ordinator

Fahmida Bakht

Props Supervisor

Cory Hippolyte

Assistant Director