In Shakespeare’s  Much Ado everyone seems willing to do whatever it takes to get what they want . . . except to be direct, tell the truth, and confide in the right person.  Instead, they prank, tease, pretend, misdirect and misuse.  In a painterly fairytale villa on the coast of 16th-century Sicily, schemes and scams and games are played, people pretend to be who and what they are not, sometimes with painful results.  These extreme diversionary tactics are generally employed to avoid candidly saying “I love you.”