For many, the name Shakespeare invokes a sense of dread, bringing to mind memories of high school English classes filled with stale interpretations of dense and unrelatable text. This fall, Talia Pott ’25 set out to challenge these preconceptions through her senior thesis project: a genderqueer reimagining of “Much Ado About Nothing,” which was performed Nov. 22 through Nov. 24 in Rooke Theatre.