by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The New York Shakespeare Festival production by JOSEPH PAPP with The fiery Beatrice and the incorrigibly talkative Benedick are two people whom everyone - except themselves - can see are made for each other. It requires a dastardly plot by the villainous Don John to bring the lovers together. Joseph Papp 's highly successful and inventive production sets Shakespeare's comedy in the small-town America of 1910 - where the characters step into high-button shoes and spats amid such post-Shakespeare innovations as the motor car, cigarette-puffing symbols of early Women's Lib - and the Keystone Kops.
Settings by TOM JOHN
Costumes by THEONI V. ALDREDGE Music by PETER LINK Director A. J ANTOON ,