Music from Billie Joe Armstrong

Shakespeare's nimble comedy Much Ado About Nothing gets a radical re-working this Fall at The Geffen Playhouse. Termed a "Modish ripoff" by its creators, These Paper Bullets updates the play's events to London of the 1960s, with Liverpudlian rock band the Quatros arriving in the capital ready to woo the ladies!

Pulitzer Prize finalist Rolin Jones (The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Boardwalk Empire) has retained the play's storyline, while almost completely revising the text, splicing together The Bard's prose with some delightfully groovy sixties dialogue. Providing the score's Beatles-esque pop songs is Green Day's Grammy-winning frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, who helped to shepherd his band's American Idiot musical onto Broadway in 2010 to great acclaim.

What is These Paper Bullets About?

The Quatros, one of the UK's brightest new bands, arrive in 1960's London after finishing a gruelling world tour. Keen to sample all the delights that the capital has to offer, they set about trying to win the hearts the city's ladies. Things don't quite go according to plan, as their efforts are thwarted by farcical misunderstandings and acts of mischief.

Did You Know?

These Paper Bullets takes its title from Act 2, Scene 3 of Shakespeare's play: "Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor?"