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 Ado About Nothing the album is also a quotation from the play. The 2014 YouTube web series Nothing Much to Do is a modern retelling of the play, set in New Zealand. In 2015, Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the music for a rock opera adaptation of the play, "These Paper Bullets", which was written by Rolin Jones. In 2017, a YA adaptation was released by author Mckelle George called "Speak Easy, Speak Love", where the events of the play take place in the 1920s, focused around a failing speakeasy. In 2018, author Molly Booth released a summer YA novel adaptation called "Nothing Happened",