We worked as Set Designer and Director would, with the Director bringing to the Set Designer a vision for how they envisioned the set, the Set Designer taking the idea and fleshing it out. 
 The set mimics an Italian villa. The windows are made of paper, and the lighting will show only a silhouette of the bodies in the adultery scene. Such a vivid, yet unclear image creates drama, but conceals who is committing the act. This moment is the “nothing” in the title of the play, which nearly leads to Hero’s demise and Claudio’s death. 

 We worked as Set Designer and Director would, with the Director bringing to the Set Designer a vision for how they envisioned the set, the Set Designer taking the idea and fleshing it out. 
 The set mimics an Italian villa. The windows are made of paper, and the lighting will show only a silhouette of the bodies in the adultery scene. Such a vivid, yet unclear image creates drama, but conceals who is committing the act. This moment is the “nothing” in the title of the play, which nearly leads to Hero’s demise and Claudio’s death. 

In Greek legend, Hero was the name of a young girl who was the lover of a man named Leander. Leander would swim across Hellespont each night to meet her, until one night he got caught in a storm and was killed. When Hero saw his dead body she was filled with despair and she killed herself. This line in the play has created a dispute amongst readers because of two possible interpretations. One interpretation of the myth is that Hero from the Greek legend portrayed the perfect wife, and therefore the actions of Hero in “Much Ado About Nothing” stain the otherwise virtuous name. However, there is also the belief that the Hero of the Greek legend is unvirtuous for betraying the wishes of her father and pursuing her love for Leander, as well as sneaking out at night for illicit reasons, which is what Hero from “Much Ado” is being accused of. If readers have this belief then the virtue of the name Hero is already “blotted out”.