Director Tony Casement Assisted by Christopher Staines

Can men and women ever just be friends? Does love conquer all?
And in the battle of the sexes just how bloody can it get?
A pair of lovers; Claudio and Hero, who are due to be married in a week, decide to pass the time before their wedding day conspiring with Don Pedro, the Prince of Aragon, to trick their friends,
Beatrice and Benedick, into confessing their
love for one another…
Mercury Associate Artist Tony Casement (who
directed last year’s Mercury Theatre Company production of Journey’s End – featured in The Daily
Telegraph’s pick of the best shows of 2008) directs Colchester’s Senior Youth Theatre in Shakespeare’s superb comedy of marriage, masks, music and mayhem.