Playing in rep along-side Much Ado About Nothing, the Royal Shakespeare Company & Chichester Festival Theatre co-production of the Shakespearean “rom-com” Love’s Labour’s Lost returned to the stage for a four month run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Shakespeare’s mischievous comedy presents the question : is the study of the opposite sex, in fact, the highest of all academic endeavours?
Last seen in 2014 in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Chichester Festival Theatre co-production of Much Ado About Nothing came to the West End for a limited four month run playing along-side Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Set in 1918, a group of weary soldiers return from the front to be greeted jubilantly by their women-folk. It is not long before the memories of the trenches are put aside as a masked ball is announced by their host, whose beautiful daughter, Hero, has taken the eye of handsome Count Claudio. Meanwhile, old friends Benedict and Beatrice re-ignite their war of words as they try to out-do each other with quips and jokes, little knowing where their sarcastic put downs will lead them.
Love’s Labour’s Lost & Much Ado About Nothing Ticket Information
Theatre: Theatre Royal Haymarket, London SW1Y 4HT
Genre: Play
Opens: 12th December 2016
Booking to: 18th March 2017
Performance times: Monday to Saturday at 1930; Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday at 1430
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