LOVE'S LABOURS LOST To Conclude Summer Season At Shakespeare's Globe Before US Tour

Shakespeare's Globe will revive Dominic Dromgoole's 2007 production of Love's Labour's Lost between 25 September and 10 October, concluding the Globe's highly successful 2009 summer theatre season. Following its run in London, Love's Labour's Lost will transfer to the US for a two month tour of North America - the first under Dominic's direction of the Globe - visiting Ann Arbor, Philadelphia, Berkeley, Davis, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, Holyoke and New York.

This delightful production includes a number of returning cast members from 2007 including Michelle Terry as The Princess of France (All's Well That Ends Well and England People Very Nice at the National Theatre) and Trystan Gravelle as Berowne (Troilus and Cressida and The Frontline at Shakespeare's Globe). New to the 2009 production is Phil Cumbus as the King of Navarre, who received praise this summer for his role as Mercutio in Dominic's production of Romeo and Juliet and Paul Ready as Don Armado who most recently appeared in Three More Sleepless Nights and Time and the Conways (National Theatre) and The Pillowman (The Curve, Leicester).

Love's Labour's Lost is a playful and joyous celebration of young love, and offers a festive parade of every weapon in the youthful playwright's comic arsenal - from excruciating cross-purposes to silly impersonations, drunkenness, bust-ups and pitfalls. It is also his most joyful banquet of language, groaning with puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parody.

The production will employ renaissance staging, costume and music, with designs by Jonathan Fensom and music by Claire van Kampen. Tony Award nominee Jonathan Fensom's recent theatre work includes Journey's End (West End and Broadway - Tony Award nomination), Talking to Terrorists (Royal Court and tour) and National Anthems (Old Vic). Claire van Kampen's recent projects include Helen (Shakespeare's Globe), Boeing-Boeing (West End and Broadway), Peer Gynt (Guthrie Theater Minneapolis) and I am Shakespeare (Chichester Festival Theatre).

Dominic Dromgoole's previous directing projects at the Globe include Romeo and Juliet (2009), King Lear (2008), Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra (both 2006) and Trevor Griffiths's play A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine (2009). He was Artistic Director of the Oxford Stage Company, 1999 - 2005, and the Bush Theatre 1990-1996, and Director of New Plays for the Peter Hall Company in 1996/7. Also an author, his books include The Full Room (2001) and Will and Me (2006).

 

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