Grassroots Shakespeare London Grassroots Shakespeare London Grassroots Shakespeare London is a British theatre company based in London, UK. The company specialises in producing accessible works of William Shakespeare inspired by using Elizabethan original theatre practices. Grassroots Shakespeare London was established in London in 2011. The company's first production was "A Midsummer Night's Dream", which performed in Hyde Park and Victoria Embankment Gardens. In December 2011, they performed "The Merry Wives of Windsor" at the New Red Lion Theatre and in 2012, they launched the theatre festival at The Scoop at More London with "Much Ado About Nothing" during HM The Queen's Diamond Jubilee
Much Apu About Nothing succeeds as a savage satire on the scapegoating of immigrants. Homer has never been so frighteningly dumb, although he does come through with a rousing liberal speech." The episode is "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening's third favorite episode of the show. The episode received a negative review from Dave Foster of DVD Times. He considered "Much Apu About Nothing" to be one of the season's most "tiring" episodes, "mostly because Apu is not a strong enough character to focus an episode on no matter how much writer David Cohen develops him". Foster commented that the episode deals with a political