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Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" Performed at Ursinus College

The Ursinus College Theater Department presents Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing Oct. 2 – 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lenfest Theater in the Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Center.

Tickets are $5 general admission and $2 students and senior citizens. A new, easy reservation system is at www.ursinus.edu/tickets

Professor
of Theater Domenick Scudera, who received rave reviews for directing
this play for the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater last year, now
directs Ursinus actors in a reconceived staging specifically for the
Collegeville audience. Scudera was given an honorable mention critics’
award as
one of the best directors from this past year’s Philadelphia theater
season through the Phindie organization, based on recommendations from
Philadelphia theater writers.

Much Ado About Nothing
is a
comedic play that combines hilarity with serious themes of honor and
shame. It chronicles two couples, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and
Hero, the first trading barbs in a merry war of the sexes, whose
growing affection is portrayed with humor and compassion.

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s
Jim Rutter called Scudera’s Philadelphia production a “fresh, exuberant
production” that “illuminates the Bard’s theme with a fullness and
flourish.”

The review goes on to say, “Domenick Scudera’s
brilliant direction elucidates the duality between earnestness and fear,
tenderness and the urge for self-preservation,” and cites Scudera’s
success in maximizing and balancing the impact “between the lighthearted
and darker elements of the text.”


Scudera has been on the theater faculty at Ursinus since
1999. He holds a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.F.A. from Penn
State. He
also has directed plays for Delaware Theater Company and the
Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and is the author of several plays and
one-man shows performed in
many national venues. Domenick and his dogs, Festus and Cyrus, volunteer
in pet therapy programs for several hospitals in the Philadelphia area
each week.

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