RSC Performances

Much Ado About Nothing

Press night

27.08.1979
Venue

Tour
Cast

Role and name
- Dogberry
  
  Armstrong, Alun
- Hero
  
  Baker, Jill
- Margaret
  
  Carr, Jane,
- Benedick
  
  Colley, Kenneth,
- Beatrice
  
  Cornwell, Charlotte,
- Balthasar
  
  Dickson, Andrew
- Watch
  
  Dickson, Andrew
- Claudio
  
  Fraser, Hugh,
- Ursula
  
  Gibbs, Matyelok,
- Antonio
  
  Ireland, Kenny,
- Conrade
  
  John, David,
- Borachio
  
  McCormack, Colin,
- Don Pedro
  
  Merrison, Clive,
- Leonato
  
  Pearson, Fred,
- Verges
  
  Rogan, John,
- Friar Francis;Watch
  
  Sloman, Roger,
- Don John
  
  Sumpter, Donald,
Creative

Role and name
- Director
  
  Davies, Howard
- Designer
  
  Dyer, Chris,
- Music by
  
  Oliver, Stephen,
- Light Designer
  
  Wigney, Brian,
- Playwright
  
  Shakespeare, William

Small-Scale Tour 27 August-8 December 1979. Much Ado About Nothing and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Venues: 27-29 August: Sports and Leisure Centre Bridgnorth, Shropshire; 30 August-1 September: Leisure Centre, Oswestry, Shropshire; 3-8 September: Grange Arts Centre, Oldham, Lancashire; 10-12 September: Hyndburn Sports Centre, Accrington, Lancashire; 13-15 September: Middlesbrough Town Hall, Cleveland; 17-19 September: Civic Hall, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria; 20-22 September: St Aidan's School, Carlisle, Cumbria; 24-27 September: Colne Valley Leisure Centre, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire; 29 September-2 October: Montgomery Hall, Wath-upon-Dearne, Rotherham, South Yorkshire; 3-6 October: Three B's Theatre, Bridlington, Humberside; 8-10 October: The Baths Hall, Scunthorpe, South Humberside; 11-13 October: Wirrina, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire; 15-18 October: Dyrons Sports Centre, Newton Abbot, Devon; 19-23 October: Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon, Plymouth, Devon; 24-27 October: Carn Brea Leisure Centre, Redruth, Cornwall; 29-31 October: Wellington Sports Centre, Wellington, Somerset; 1-3 November: Westland Sport and Social Club, Yeovil, Somerset; 5-10 November: Highbury College of Technology, Portsmouth, Hampshire; 12-14 November: Corn Exchange, Ipswich, Suffolk; 15-17 November: Bletchley Leisure Centre, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire; 19-21 November: Waltham Forest Assembly Hall, Walthamstow, London E17; 26-28 November: South Ruislip Leisure Centre, South Ruislip, Middlesex; 29 November-1 December, Tolworth Recreation Centre, Surrey; 3-5 December: Wessex Hall, Poole Arts Centre, Poole, Dorset; 6-8 December: Sports Centre, Amesbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire.