Chelsea v Everton: Premier League ? live
Gary Naylor writes: ?In Stratford Upon Avon for the matinee of Much Ado About Nothing. ?Beatrice and Benedick in Shakespeare?s original rom-com set in the world of top-flight football and celebrity culture, where scandal-filled rivalries are the hottest new thing and lads and WAGs collide.? Might work... and might not. This Beatrice is a journo and Benedick a player (which kinda makes sense), but which other characters from Shakey?s canon map on to footballers? Gazza is Falstaff of course, Enzo Maresca will be keeping an eye out for a Cassius and Brutus if he loses today and I?m increasingly inclined to cast Reuben Amorim as Prospero, searching for the old magic on his lonely Old Trafford island.?
Send in any Bard banter here. I?m not much use, having tuned out a bit during English Lit although I did go on a sixth-form trip to Stratford to see Shakey?s work. Trouble is, my main recollection is buying a New Order album in a local record shop. ?Brotherhood? I think.
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