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Love's Labour's Lost

Play From 1 July 2007 to 7 October 2007

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London

The Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London presents William Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost during the 2007 Season.

Self-denial is in fashion at the court of Navarre where the young King and three of his courtiers solemnly forswear all pleasures in favour 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, with its glad eyes, hesitations and embarrassments, has broken every self-imposed rule of the all-male 'academe'.

Shakespeare's boisterous send-up of all those who try to turn their back on life, is a festive parade of every weapon in the youthful playwright's comic arsenal: from excruciating cross-purposes and impersonations, to drunkenness, bust-ups and pratfalls. Even more, it is a joyful banquet of language, groaning with puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parodies. This heady combination enjoys its first outing at the Globe this season.

William Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost in London is directed by Dominic Dromgoole and features designs by Jonathan Fensom. This production Love's Labour's Lost will employ Renaissance staging, costume and music.

Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe, directed Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra for the Globe's 2006 theatre season. Jonathan Fensom's recent theatre work includes Journey's End (West End and Broadway), Talking to Terrorists (Royal Court and tour) and Smaller (West End).