Deception In Much Ado About Nothing

Love, Laughs, and Deception On November 19, 2015 at 8 o’clock in the evening I attended the play Much Ado About Nothing, inside of the Little Theatre at San Francisco State University (SFSU). I was able to purchase tickets online through a link from my theatre professor, there was a discounted student fee, which was $10 per ticket. I bought two tickets which was a total of $20, because my mom attended the play with me. We sat in the center of the theatre in row E, seat 110 and 111, it was slightly off to the side of the center of the stage, but rather close to the actors. The audience members in the theatre seemed to be very interactive with the actors, laughing at the jokes, and conversations between the characters. This play was written …show more content…
This allowed the play to lead up to the ending, and following in an easy manner. The inciting incident of this play was in the beginning when Claudio confessed his attraction to Leonato’s daughter, Hero, and Benedick speaks about Beatrice, hinting a slight attraction, but not wanting to fully admit it. The major incidents of conflict were when Don John had a plan to set up with Borachia and Margaret to pretend that Hero was cheating on Claudio before they were supposed to get married, and left Don Pedro and Claudio furious. The Climatic incident would have to be when Hero and Claudio are ready to get married, but Claudio declines Hero’s hand in marriage, then embarrasses her in front of everyone calling her a cheater and telling everyone what she did, and shortly after Benedict confesses his love for Beatrice. The deunoment is towards the ending of the play when Borachia confess to Don Pedro that his brother, Don John was the one who set the plan to destroy Claudio and Hero’s love, and Hero was really …show more content…
The Diction seen in this production was a bit hard for me to understand since the wording is from quite some time ago, it took me a while to figure out what the actors were trying to say. But it also let the audience see how the characters were feeling when they would say something and react towards it. There were a few times the background music was played from a radio or sometimes the piano, and when they were changing scene. There was also time where different characters sang, such as Beatrice and in the end the characters danced and sang. Much Ado About Nothing did have some qualities of a fine play being that was intriguing, being that was there so much deception and lies being told, I was so interested in finding out what was going to happen next, also with the good flow and plot, the audience was able to easy follow, and stay updated on the