Perform Australia's Advanced Diploma students presents "Much Ado About Nothing" - one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, first performed in 1598, and back in Canberra in 2020!

Directed by James Scott, Much Ado About Nothing is the story of soldiers returning home from war victorious, to reunite with their prospective brides.

The regal Don Pedro and charming Claudio hatch a plot to use gossip, hearsay and rumour to convince their confirmed bachelor friend, wise-cracking Benedick, and the witty firebrand spinster Beatrice, to fall in love with each other.

But the malcontent Don Jon uses similar methods for darker purposes, slandering the innocent Hero on her wedding day and leaving her for dead.

Beatrice, Benedick and their friends have to pick up the pieces – and confirm that it really was... much ado about nothing!