Shakespeare Uncovered

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Announcer

Helen Hunt, take one, mark. I'm Helen Hunt, and I am hosting and narrating and taking the deep dive to unwrap Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing." "Much Ado About Nothing" is one of Shakespeare's most joyous and popular plays. His grace hath made the match, and all grace say amen to it." -

Group

Amen! (applause) I've played it twice, and am interested in talking to people and trying to get to the bottom of what makes it so full and rich and funny. Oh, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face, eww! Richard Dunton, who directed the episode that I did, he was interested in which productions of the play interested me. I will stop your mouth. I had seen Kenneth Branagh's movie that I thought was so joyful. There's an incredible shot where all of these men are riding over the hill, and it just launches the whole movie into the spirit of the play. One of the great strengths of "Much Ado" is that wherever and whenever you said it, the story always works. -

Male

Good senior, Leonato. Good senior, Leonato. I think Shakespeare endures, because he had the courage to take on things that are timeless, and it's an infinite spring of everything that makes theater and life, itself, interesting.