Much Ado About Nothing

It's Rest and Recuperation time for General Peters and his entourage including the Soviet Commissar Ivan Illyich after a hard fought war. Where best to spend it but at the Hotel Messina in Sicily, owned by his good friend Signor Leonato. Italian Partisan Count Claudio is in love with Leonato's daughter Hero. But can Claudio and General Peters, get their British liaison officer Captain Benedick to fall in love with Leonato's sharp-witted niece, Beatrice? - a tough task indeed, considering their ‘history’ but all is not well as the meddling Commissar Ivan plots to ruin the love matches. A joyous evening of love, laughter and fun in Shakespeare’s best loved romantic comedy reset to Sicily at the end of World War 2.