Five years ago, the College of Engineering Does Amateur Radical Theater considered producing “Much Ado About Nothing,” but rejected it as being too tough for an amateur group. Recently, the group’s co-director Allison Mollenkamp had other ideas. “This was sort of a ‘prove everyone wrong,’ ” said Mollenkamp. “We wanted to challenge ourselves.” Her co-director Jonathan Holle is a self-proclaimed Shakespeare nerd. The directors have put a spin on the play by changing some genders: Two of the main characters, the patriarch of the family, Leonato, and the villain, Don John, are being played as women, by women.