Much Ado About Nothing

Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Michael Keaton, Keanu Reeves
A teeming, joyful, acrobatic introduction high in the hills of Tuscany heralds the opening of a pruned but captivating international version of Shakespeare's troubling comedy. With Washington as the Duke, Reeves as a splendidly imperious John the bastard, Keaton and Elton as the clueless Dogberry and Verges, and Branagh and Thompson as the 'romantic' Beatrice and Benedick, we see some of the best verbal jousting in the language.