Actor Charles Edwards and Much Ado About Nothing

19th July 2011

 

SHAKESPEARE: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Actor Charles Edwards talks to Heather Neill about his role as Benedick, opposite Eve Best’s Beatrice, in Jeremy Herrin’s great production of the play at Shakespeare’s Globe. Recorded at Shakespeare’s Globe, 15 July 2011.

On the page, the ‘Kill Claudio’ scene is a very quick one: it just goes bam, bam, bam. And performing it like that was a revelatory moment.