A long-term dream will come true for John Gaden when the State Theatre Company’s Much Ado About Nothing opens at the Playhouse tonight. Gaden – and actors William Zappa and Celia de Burgh explain the attraction of the Shakespearean comedy to Murray Bramwell

It was November last year when John Gaden first asked William Zappa whether he knew Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and whether he would be interested in playing Benedick. Zappa recalls:

“I’d been staying with a friend …

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