Much Ado About Nothing review postwar take on battle of the sexes
Royal Exchange, ManchesterSpirits are high in this make-do-and-mend era revamp of Shakespeare's comedy, with a tartly played antipathy between Beatrice and BenedickThe Swedish director Maria Aberg recently presented Belongings, a play about a female soldier adapting to life after Afghanistan, and Roy Williams's Days of Significance, an Iraq-war update of Much Ado About Nothing, so she is well versed in the exploratio…