Smithfield's Sarah Leach in URI Production of 'Much Ado About Nothing'

The URI Department of Theatre's Much Ado About Nothing will feature several stellar graduating seniors who have dazzled audiences for most of their years in Kingston, including Sarah Leach of Smithfield as Margaret.

The show will be staged April 25-27, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. and April 21 and 28 at 3 p.m. in the Robert E. Will Theatre in the URI Fine Arts Center on the Kingston Campus. General admission for the performance is $20, $15 for seniors, URI faculty/staff, and $12 for students. Tickets can be purchased by calling 401-874-5843 or online at www.uri.edu/theatre.

Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, is a titillating comedy in which two of his best characters, the intelligent, witty Beatrice matches wits with the dull, cynical Benedick. In fact, two of URI's top performers, Olivia Khoshatefeh of Mansfield, Mass., and Andrew Burnap of South Kingstown will bring the verbal sparring of the Bard's top characters to stage before they leave for their graduate studies at Brown and Yale universities respectively.

In Much Ado, their merry war engages us throughout a love story involving Beatrice's cousin Hero, Alex Maynard of Providence, and Benedick's friend Claudio, Benjamin Miller of Barrington, that goes awry when Hero is falsely accused of betrayal. It takes the comicConstable Dogberry played by Americo Lanni and his hilarious troops to uncover the truth.

And it takes true love for Benedick to believe in Beatrice's loyalty to Hero and to commit himself to her course of action. Much Adomay seem to be about nothing, but it is essentially about the attractions of a woman's mind and character on a perennial bachelor. It is a lighthearted romp rooted in the depth of the battle of the sexes.  

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