Beatrice and Benedick enjoy nothing better than throwing insults at each other, but as they spar, their sizzling repartee begins to reveal their deep regard and mutual affection. Their new-found connection is challenged, however, when Beatrice’s niece Hero is wrongfully accused and abused. Set in the 1920s, an era of changing attitudes towards marriage and power, the play presents a society at once filled with progressive feminist impulses and opposing systems rooted in patriarchal values. Will truth and love win out?