Love’s Labour’s Lost
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre of London
Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director
Tuesday, October 20, 8 pm
Thursday, October 22, 8 pm
Friday, October 23, 8 pm
Saturday, October 24, 8 pm
Sunday, October 25, 2 pm
Power Center
| Thu, Fri, Sat MF | $60·$54·$36·$30 |
| Thu, Fri, Sat Balc | $54·$44·$36·$20 |
| Tue, Sun MF | $50·$44·$32·$26 |
| Tue, Sun Balc | $44·$40·$32·$18 |
Self-denial is in fashion at the court of Navarre where the young King and three of his courtiers solemnly forswear all pleasures in favor of serious study. But the Princess of France and her all-too-lovely entourage have other ideas, and it isn’t long before young love has broken every self-imposed rule of the all-male ‘academe’. Shakespeare’s boisterous celebration of the claims of young love is a festive parade of every weapon in the youthful playwright’s comic arsenal – from excruciating cross-purposes to silly impersonations, drunkenness, bustups and pratfalls. It’s also his most joyful banquet of language, groaning with puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parody. Directed by Dominic Dromgoole, with designs by Jonathan Fensom and music by Claire van Kampen, the Globe's production "mixes bare-faced cheek with bare-cheeked bottoms," (The Guardian, London), employing Renaissance staging, costumes, and music.
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