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I love Shakespeare. I've loved his work since I was given a children’s edition set of his plays for my 10th birthday, what every 10-year-old dreams of I know, turns out I loved them. So, of course, when the possibility of black company performing a full-length Shakespeare came up, I was more excited than I care to admit.    Unfortunately, I had to miss a lot of the decision-making process due to illness, so I can't really tell you how that went. The first stage of the rehearsal process for Much Ado was auditions. The reason I was so excited that we had chosen Much About Nothing is because Benedick is an absolute dream role of mine, simply because I think it's just so fun to get up on stage and be a complete, well ,  clue’s in the name . I enjoyed the audition session, it was fun to see everyone's different take on the character they were auditioning for, me and Olli had vastly different interpretations of Benedick for example. In this session, we also talked about where...

  Was performing outside in the cold a good idea with two other shows the same week? Probably Not.   Was it worth it? Absolutely Yes. Was screaming at the top of my voice a good idea? Definitely Not.    ‘Twas the second week back to Yew Tree after our Christmas shows, and we began to decide which play we would do for summer. The week before Sarah had asked us all to come in with facts about Tennessee Williams, however as usual, I forgot and so did some research in the car (or streetcar) on the way to drama. All I ended up bringing was the irrelevant fact that he was forced into being Catholic as a kid, and then a cringy pick up line (are you from Tennessee? Cos you’re the only ten I see!). Anyway, we talked about doing a play called Streetcar Named Desire (I honestly initially heard the word ‘streetcat’ so I thought we were considering doing a Streetcat Named Bob which I was hyped for but alas), but after a vote we decided against it. We then considered Much Ado Abou...