So today is the day, or rather, tonight is the night. We are opening Much Ado About Nothing here at the Monomoy Theatre, and I am playing my first actual dream role. That's not to say that I haven't been exceedingly proud of a lot of other parts I've done, but that I have literally been dreaming of playing Beatrice since I was a very young teenager. I mean, she's Beatrice. What more can I say?
The show looks truly gorgeous. Set in 1945 in a post WWII Italy, our costumes are beautiful and we step out onto the stage to find a war ridden Italian town square. Green shutters on the implied buildings and the horizon of the Mediterranean Sea in the background.
I must confess that I am a little nervous to be playing such an iconic role, but I'm sure as soon as Benedick (Jonathan Silver) marches up in his army uniform, I will forget all about that and fall in love with him.
