Diverse Brains.

While it appeared that the patients enjoyed Much Ado About Nothing, mostly they said that there was nothing particularly complicated about the story and they didn’t relate to the characters in a personal way. One patient commented that it was immediately apparent that Benedick and Beatrice loved each other and the patient found their bickering pointless, adding “why waste all that time if you love somebody.” Another patient said that he’s known “lots of people just like” Don John, the villain of the play and was at a loss to understand why people are mean to each other. The group members all enjoyed the character Dogberry the policeman and pointed out that because he was not a rich man and because he was different and clumsy he had been underestimated by the wealthy and better educated characters in the play. I believe they were making a pointed reference to themselves in relation to hospital staff.