Ack! We're losing people! Please make a soon-to-be-thirteen-year-old's day - participate in her birthday Shakespeare! A living room reading of Much Ado About Nothing . Tomorrow at noon. We have lost Don John and Dogberry. Agh! Halp. If lightcastle wants to be Dogberry, we'll need a new Don Pedro instead. And yes, we do cross-casting. Very much hoping to pull this off. Miss Kid is quite bouncy about it. Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon: lightcastle Don John, his bastard brother: mirrored_echo Claudio, a young lord of Florence (favorite to Don Pedro): wired_lizard Benedick, a young lord of Padua, favorite likewise of Don Pedro: mangosteen Leonato, governor of Messina: feste_sylvain Antonio, his brother: Balthazar, servant to Don Pedro: Two followers of Don John - Borachio (mllelaurel) and Conrad: Two foolish officers - Dogberry and Verges: A sexton: A friar: A boy: Hero, daughter to Leonato: Elayna Beatrice, niece to Leonato: shadesong Two gentlewomen attending on Hero, Margaret and Ursula: alyveritya + sister? Messengers, watch, and attendants: