The Jamie Lloyd Company has announced the full cast for William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Directed by Jamie Lloyd, the production opens on Wednesday 19 February, with previews from 10 February, and runs until 5 April 2025.
Tom Hiddleston (Benedick) and Hayley Atwell (Beatrice) are joined by Mara Huf (Hero), Forbes Masson (Leonato), Phillip Olagoke (Friar Francis), Mason Alexander Park (Margaret), James Phoon (Claudio) and Tim Steed (Don John), currently starring in The Tempest, and Mika Onyx Johnson (Borachio) and Gerald Kyd (Don Pedro).
The Jamie Lloyd Company also continues its commitment to accessibility, with 25,000 tickets offered at £25 across the season exclusively for under 30s, key workers and those receiving government benefits. These tickets are available across the first three levels of the theatre. For Much Ado About Nothing tickets will go on sale at a later date with further information to be announced.
Much Ado About Nothing is the second production in The Jamie Lloyd Company’s season of Shakespeare at Theatre Royal Drury Lane which opened with The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver, currently running until 1 February 2025.
The Jamie Lloyd Company presents
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jamie Lloyd
Set and Costume Designer: Soutra Gilmour; Lighting Designer: Jon Clark; Sound Designers and Composers: Ben and Max Ringham; Movement Director: Fabian Aloise; Associate Director and Text Edited by Jonathan Glew; Casting Director: Stuart Burt CDG; Wigs, Hair and Make Up Designer: Carole Hancock; Intimacy Coordinator: Ingrid Mackinnon; Props Supervisor: Fahmida Bakht; Assistant Director: Cory Hippolyte
Monday 10 February – Saturday 5 April 2025
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?”
Tom Hiddleston is Benedick and Hayley Atwell is Beatrice. Two of their generation’s finest actors collaborate with director Jamie Lloyd again in this savagely funny and beautifully tender battle of wits.
Produced by The Jamie Lloyd Company.
