The university student is a strange creature, stuck in a curious limbo between adolescence and adulthood. It is said to be a time of great learning: you attend lectures on (hopefully) fascinating subjects, figure out how to pay an electricity bill, and do your own laundry. There is the pursuit of knowledge, the desire to evolve, a search for that elusive wisdom that all proper adults seem to possess… But you’re not an adult yet. Instead, you find yourself having water balloon fights outside the lecture hall and drunkenly debating the finer details of The Samurai Pizza Cats at a party while wearing a penguin suit you don’t remember putting on. This delicate balance between work and play, between newly-found responsibility and having fun, is exactly what Love’s Labour’s Lost is about.
What your favorite Shakespeare play says about you (Part II)
Love’s Labour’s Lost = You like poetry
Richard II = You believe all guys named Richard are a Dick.
Romeo and Juliet = You believe in love first sight despite there being plenty of other fish in the sea
A Midsummer Night’s Dream = You liked fairies as a child
King John = You find the Magna Carta overrated
The Merchant of Venice = You read this as a tragedy to rather than a comedy
Henry IV Part I = You are just year for your sprit character: Falstaff
The Merry Wives of Windsor = You enjoy fanfics or spinoffs that happen in a different genre from the original text
Henry IV Part II = You spend many nights at your local tavern (or whatever your modern day equivalent is)
Henry V = You either really like war stories or stan Tom Hiddleston or Timothée Chalamet
Much Ado About Nothing = Your ideal way of flirting is constant sarcastic insults
Julius Caesar = You ‘know’ the government is corrupt
As you like it = You used to dress up in your parent’s clothes and put on shows
Hamlet = You say you listen to Nirvana but you’ve only listened to “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Twelfth Night = You are a members of the LGBTQ+ community
Trouilus and Cressida = You liked the star cross lovers part of “Romeo and Juliet” but you just wish it was more of a Greek tragedy completed with a battle sequence
I’ve seen Henry VIII andKing John performed lived twice each now, and Love’s Labour’s four times, not counting various filmed productions. I can also say “honorificabilitudinitatibus” forwards and backwards. My Shakespeare geek creds are strong.
Director Nick Bagnall brings Shakespeare’s rarely performed play to life in a world of wonder. Join the King of Navarre, the Princess of France and all their friends as they navigate this fairy tale in our jewel box theatre.
“From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world.”
