STONE SOUP SHAKESPEARE
  • About
    • Our History
    • The Company
    • Mindfulness and Awareness
  • TOUR
    • Tour 2025: Love's Labour's Lost
    • Past Tours >
      • Tours >
        • Tour 2024: Macbeth >
          • Tour 2024: Macbeth - ENSEMBLE
          • Tour 2024: Macbeth and Violence
          • Tour 2024: Macbeth
        • Tour 2023: PERICLES >
          • Tour 2023: PERICLES ENSEMBLE
        • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM About >
          • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Tour Dates
          • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM FAME Center Collaboration
          • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Survey
          • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Cast and Creatives
        • Tour 2021: HAMLET Tour Dates >
          • Tour 2021: HAMLET Cast and Creatives
          • Tour 2021: HAMLET RSVP
        • Tour 2019: FAME Tour-Twelfth Night >
          • Tour 2019: FAME Tour Schedule
          • Tour 2019: Ensemble
          • Tour 2019: FAME Tour a Note of Inclusion
        • Tour 2018: The Taming of the Shrew >
          • Tour 2018: Tour Schedule
          • Tour 2018: Ensemble
        • Tour 2017: Julius Caesar home
        • Tour 2016: The Comedy of Errors >
          • Tour 2016: The Comedy Cast
        • Tour 2015: Much Ado About Nothing >
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About a director
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About a cast
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About SHAKE38
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About Other Fun
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About a GREEN SHOW
        • As You Like It >
          • As You Like It Actors
          • As You Like It Auxiliary Events
        • The Tempest >
          • The Tempest Who's Who
          • The Tempest Talks
        • A Midsummer Night's Dream: Tour 2012
        • Romeo and Juliet: Tour 2011 >
          • Romeo and Juliet Tour
          • Romeo and Juliet cast
  • EDUCATION
  • Soup
    • The Tale of Stone Soup
    • Recipe Archive
  • DONATE
  • Contact
    • Artists
Not since John Hughes has there been a romantic comedy as worthwhile to bring a date to as Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. This Spring, under the direction of Jeri Frederickson, we invite you to visit our Messina, conveniently traveling to your "backyard." A blend of punk rock, neon and misunderstanding fill the night along with Shakespeare's poetry and characters. There will be dancing, singing and a night watch that is one white suit shy of joining the cast of Miami Vice (lucky for you that means the watch will instead be joining us).

Friendship is constant in all other things 
Save in the office and affairs of love
_
                                                                                                       -Claudio


Picture


2015 Tour Schedule

NEXT PERFORMANCE:
Sunday, June 7, 2015
6:00pm


Senior Citizens Memorial Park
2238 N Oakley Ave
Chicago, IL

ALREADY PERFORMED:
Friday, May 1, 2015
6:00pm


Sunday, May 3, 2015
6:00pm


Friday, May 8, 2015
7:00 PM


Marion Carnegie Library
206 S Market Street
Marion, IL

Cole Memorial Park
in partnership with Chester Public Library
Chester, IL
SCRATCH Brewery
264 Thompson Rd
Ava, IL

special Green Show: That Crazy Shakespeare Thing
presented by Shots in the Dark Independent Theatre Company
written and directed by Patrick McGregor
featuring Kristin Doty and Chad Ferriell
Saturday, May 9, 2015
6:00pm


Monday, May 11, 2015
6:00pm

Cape Girardeau Public Library
711 N Clark Street
Cape Girardeau, MO

Harrisburg District Library
2 W Walnut St
Harrisburg, IL

Tuesday, May 12, 2015
6:00pm

McCracken County Library
555 Washington St
Paducah, KY

Thursday, May 14, 2015
6:30pm

pre-show discussion at 5:30 with scholar/regional director Patrick McGregor
Nashville Memorial Park
604 E Memorial Drive
Nashville, IL

Special Green Show: Jaylyn Bower (Nashville Community High School student) will perform a soliloquy of Romeo's from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Friday, May 15, 2015
6:30pm

Tower Grove Park
Pool Pavillion
St. Louis, MO
Renascence House
next to the boardwalk in
Makanda, IL

Saturday, May 16, 2015
3:00pm


Sunday, May 17, 2015
6:00pm

Friday, May 29, 2015
6:30pm


Saturday, May 30, 2015
6:00pm

Attucks Park
Carbondale, IL

Tapawingo Park
West Lafayette, IN


Twin Lake Park
Paris, IL

in case of rain performance will go on as scheduled under the Pavilion
Sunday, May 31, 2015
6:00pm


Friday, June 5, 2015
6:00 PM

Saturday, June 6, 2015
6:00 PM

Mineral Springs Park
by the Pavilion on the Lagoon
Pekin, IL

Nelson Park
Decatur, IL

Shorewood Public Library
3920 North Murray Ave
Shorewood, WI
Dates being added, check back often for new dates. For information on bringing Much Ado About Nothing to your town, e-mail [email protected]

The Story

Much Ado About Nothing is the story of Hero, daughter of Leonato. She is wooed and won by the Count Claudio (a noble, visiting Messina after battle with the Prince of Arragon, Don Pedro). The marriage is set, but Don Pedro’s brother, Don John, schemes for Claudio to discover “Hero” being unfaithful to him. At the wedding Claudio accuses Hero and stops the ceremony. The falsely accused Hero, with assistance from her father and cousin (Beatrice) feigns death just as Claudio is discovering the error of his ways. As apology and penance for his assumptions Claudio swears to marry whomever Leonato chooses. At the new ceremony a veiled Hero weds Claudio, only revealing herself after the nuptials. Several secondary stories swirl around including a bickering romance between Hero’s cousin Beatrice and Don Pedro’s other companion, Signor Benedick. The sibling jealousy and subterfuge of Don John has an arc as well that includes the detective masterminds of Dogberry and Verges (the Constable and Deputy Constable of Messina).

Picture
Picture
The 2015 tour is partially supported by the Carbondale Community Arts Southern Arts Fund and by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Company

About
The Company

Support

Contact
FAQ
© COPYRIGHT 2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • About
    • Our History
    • The Company
    • Mindfulness and Awareness
  • TOUR
    • Tour 2025: Love's Labour's Lost
    • Past Tours >
      • Tours >
        • Tour 2024: Macbeth >
          • Tour 2024: Macbeth - ENSEMBLE
          • Tour 2024: Macbeth and Violence
          • Tour 2024: Macbeth
        • Tour 2023: PERICLES >
          • Tour 2023: PERICLES ENSEMBLE
        • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM About >
          • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Tour Dates
          • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM FAME Center Collaboration
          • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Survey
          • Tour 2022: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Cast and Creatives
        • Tour 2021: HAMLET Tour Dates >
          • Tour 2021: HAMLET Cast and Creatives
          • Tour 2021: HAMLET RSVP
        • Tour 2019: FAME Tour-Twelfth Night >
          • Tour 2019: FAME Tour Schedule
          • Tour 2019: Ensemble
          • Tour 2019: FAME Tour a Note of Inclusion
        • Tour 2018: The Taming of the Shrew >
          • Tour 2018: Tour Schedule
          • Tour 2018: Ensemble
        • Tour 2017: Julius Caesar home
        • Tour 2016: The Comedy of Errors >
          • Tour 2016: The Comedy Cast
        • Tour 2015: Much Ado About Nothing >
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About a director
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About a cast
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About SHAKE38
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About Other Fun
          • Tour 2015: Much Ado About a GREEN SHOW
        • As You Like It >
          • As You Like It Actors
          • As You Like It Auxiliary Events
        • The Tempest >
          • The Tempest Who's Who
          • The Tempest Talks
        • A Midsummer Night's Dream: Tour 2012
        • Romeo and Juliet: Tour 2011 >
          • Romeo and Juliet Tour
          • Romeo and Juliet cast
  • EDUCATION
  • Soup
    • The Tale of Stone Soup
    • Recipe Archive
  • DONATE
  • Contact
    • Artists