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36 Shakespeare plays in eight days? All the world's a table top, where the players are cans of drink and toilet rolls.

Luke Thallon is a compelling, all-at-sea Hamlet, Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston sizzle as Beatrice and Benedick, while Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey is a bit too much the overreaching king

There’s no whiff of stuffiness in a Sean Holmes production characterised by warm summer euphoria, Elizabethan-era magic and entrancing music

Amalia Vitale and Ekow Quartey are arch and spirited as the central, wittily unwilling lovers

Cruelty, nosiness, truth-telling: whatever you call it, it appears in every community – and in plenty of works of literature too

“What’s your type on paper?” is frequently asked by contestants on the popular reality dating show Love Island. “Rich, that’s certaine” responds Benedick, a contestant on “Nothing Island”, who appears to know exactly what he likes. “Wise, or I’ll none”, “virtuous”, “fair”, “mild” – though he concedes he is not…

Simon Godwin masterfully directs a slick production starring Katherine Parkinson and John Heffernan

It’s not a bad show, just ponderous and hollow

The ‘IT Crowd’ and ‘Here We Go’ star is playing Beatrice in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. She talks to Jessie Thompson about using wit as a defence, problematic Shakespeare plays and why female desire is a feminist issue