3.20 Much Ado About Nothing (1599) in Full

Director Stuart Burge initially thought about shooting the entire episode against a blank tapestry background, with no set whatsoever, but it was felt that audiences may not respond well to this, and the idea was scrapped.  Ultimately the production had a style referred to as "stylized realism"; the environments are suggestive of their real life counterparts, the foregrounds are broadly realistic representations, but the backgrounds tended to be more artificial; "a representational context close to the actors, with a more stylized presentation of distance."  Jan Spoczynski won Designer of the Year at the 1985 Royal Television Society Awards for his work on this episode.

Reference: Much Ado About Nothing.

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Note. The numbers in the title refer to the play number (3.20) and publication year (1599), which Wikipedia noted based on the Oxford chronology.