A battle of unequals at Hartford Stage by Jeffrey Borak
The real flower in this garden is Ziémba's luminous Beatrice, a shrewd, insightful, smart woman who deserves much better than Dan Snook's Benedick, a fly boy who pushes the notion of devil-may-care into puerile immaturity. In the witty serve-and-volleying that goes on between them, Benedick clearly is outmatched.