The Shakespeare Forum with Carolyn S. Bauer Productions will present LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST co-directed by Andrew Borthwick-Leslie and Sybille Bruun. Previews begin June 13 at The Gym at Judson with opening night set for Wednesday, June 19.
In LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, The King of Navarre and his lords take an oath to devote three years to scholarship-without the company of women. But they quickly realize that love doesn't play by the rules. As each man falls head-over-heels, this madcap comedy sends audiences on a hilarious misadventure of mishaps and misunderstandings."At first glance, LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST can seem a sweet but trivial conceit of coincidence and poetry," explain co-directors Borthwick-Leslie and Bruun. "Our production will revel in and reveal the intense passions and provocations that lie underneath. Love, impractical and inconvenient, causes our cast of characters to fail to conceal their true natures. It is through those failures that we understand that Navarre, much like New York City, is not so much a dead and remote ideal, but a direct reflection of how the human spirit cannot be contained. Politics, pride, career, and fame do battle with poetry, desire, dance and beauty. We hope to discover why the labours of love this particular time, lose."Videos