Went to the opening night of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival yesterday, as well as to their opening show, Love’s Labour’s Lost. It was, as all the CSF productions are, a great job, and for a show that relies on erudite wordplay in a dialect of English that’s already difficult to follow, it was understandable and a lot of fun.
Looking forward to a great theater season up in Boulder this summer.
Love’s Labour’s Lost – CU Presents
Start your summer with a frothy, funny celebration of love and learning. In the bucolic Kingdom of Navarre, four attractive young men make a pact to swear off romance and focus on academia … just minutes before the four loves of their lives wander by. Shakespeare’s side-splitting comedy about the struggle to balance heart and head is the perfect ode…
While I usually don't go into plays doing a lot of advance reading, knowing we were seeing this show, +James Hill and I watched some related media the afternoon before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shakespeare_Code
+Dave Hill Good thinking.
Actually, the subject of Love's Labour's Won (the ostensible sequel) is an interesting one. We're pretty confident that a Shakespearean play by that name (though some folk have questioned it), it seems likely that it was a sequel (though that's not common for comedies), but it might also be a different name for an existing play (which was a thing that happened), but there are a half-dozen known Shakespearean comedies that have been nominated for the role (nobody can agree).
In other words, a typical Shakespearean debate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Won
A good review of the show.
http://www.dailycamera.com/theater-dance/ci_31935563/review-colorado-shakespeare-festival-opens-season-loves-labours