KILL CLAUDIO! by Élise C. Hanson

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Set in the unmoored, wibbly wobbly margins of Much Ado About Nothing, Kill Claudio!follows characters caught between comedy and catastrophe. Lovers, villains, constables, and court iers endeavor to understand how the moral logic of the world they inhabit butts up against their emotional responses to altered expectation. As accusations harden into public judgment and forgiveness arrives too late to erase the damage, Shakespeare’s familiar characters are forced to confront a more unsettling question: who grants humanity to whom? By turns playful, tender, and existential, the play reframes Much Ado as a meditation on performance, punishment, and the brittle authority of social consensus. Show more