Much Ado, Royal Shakespeare Company, April 1976

John Barton: Director; Napier: Designer; Tom Holte: photographer. ahds.ac.uk/performingarts

"The play has been lifted bodily into mid-nineteenth century India...just as the sons of the Empire were sent into the colonies to 'find themselves' a century ago, so we now send our theatrical classics there in hope of finding them again. And it works: the timbered balconies of John Napier's permanent Stratford setting, used last week for the declaration of Juliet's love, now become places to hang awnings and sun-shades out in the midday sun." Sheridan Morley, Punch 21.4.76