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Funk It Up About Nothin' - review by Brian Logan

Theatre Royal, Stratford EastIt makes perfect sense. Beatrice and Benedick's verbal sparring in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a precursor to freestyle rap - or at least, it's easy to think so after watching the Q Brothers' remix of the Bard's barbed romcom. Not so barbed here, mind you. Funk It Up (first seen on the Edinburgh Fringe in 2008) is pure fun, undimmed by the darker shades of the original. If you…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on April 12, 2011

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