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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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