A review by caomhghin
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

5.0

Not one of my favourites though a good production, so long as it is fast and keeps up the wit, can overcome this. Strange jumping of registers - most notably the sudden announcement of the death of the king of France offstage. It is full of 'wit', some of it perhaps a little laboured and certainly dated. Most strangely it is full of Shakespeare characters in embryo as it were. Even Armado is a kind of Falstaff or Malvolio. Berowne and Rosaline is a very thin version of Beatrice and Benedict later. The clowns are finely done and occasionally rather deeper, especially Costard in the last act.