Much Ado About Nothing, National Theatre review - Shakespeare's comedy goes Hollywood musical
Simon Godwin delivers an unexpectedly conventional production, larky and fluffy After gender-flipping the National's Malvolio, the director Simon Godwin might have been expected to be equally bold with Much Ado About Nothing at the same address. A same-sex Beatrice and Benedick romance? Dogberry in bondage gear, zonked out on poppers? True, Godwin has been free with the text, cutting freely and turning Governor Leona…