Shooting Times & Country

Try not to fluff your flightlines

Much Ado About Nothing isn’t one of my favourite Shakespeare plays, though its title is brilliant. Next time you’re down the pub, ask your local 16th-century language expert to explain what ‘nothing’ meant in Elizabethan slang, but make sure your wife or girlfriend’s out of hearing.

Nonetheless, despite its saucy name, our local amateur theatre decided to stage it last summer — no little achievement as the majority of the players are in full-time jobs.

Over the years, rather than learn their lines over a month or two, they’ve found it’s easier to take a week’s holiday each and crash through the whole process in seven days. And it works. On the first night,

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