Love's Labour's Lost

by William Shakespeare

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**** 'Dominic Dromgoole’s zestful production succeeds in captivating the audience to a degree that I would not have thought possible… It’s a treat' The Independent

'Sends its audience out in a mood of high exultation' Observer

'As dewy as a morning in May… this production lands every joke' New York Times

'With a delightful design and jaunty music it has abundant charm… Entirely enchanting' The Times

The King of Navarre and his courtiers have forsworn every kind of pleasure. But a visit from the Princess of France and her lovely entourage soon has this all-male ‘academe’ tearing up its own rulebook.

Shakespeare’s 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.

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Directed by Dominic Dromgoole
Designed by Jonathan Fensom
Composed by Claire van Kampen

Cast
Jade Anouka Maria
Philip Cumbus Ferdinand
Seroca Davis Moth
Jack Farthing Dumaine
Patrick Godfrey Sir Nathaniel
Christopher Godwin Holofernes
Trystan Gravelle Berowne
William Mannering Longaville
Fergal McElherron Costard
Rhiannon Oliver Jacquenetta
Thomasin Rand Rosaline
Paul Ready Don Armado
Siân Robins-Grace Katherine
Tom Stuart Boyet
Michelle Terry Princess of France
Andrew Vincent Dull

Musicians Nick Perry, George Bartle, David Hatcher, Arngeir Hauksson, Claire McIntyre, Benjamin Narvey

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