FREE FOR ALL 2007
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Click here to join our email list. Love's Labor's Lost
by William Shakespeare
directed by
Stephen Fried
original direction by
Michael Kahn
May 24 - June 3, 2007
No performance Monday, May 28
Carter Barron Amphitheatre
16th St. and Colorado Ave. NW
Amphitheatre gates open at 5:30 p.m.
Seating begins
approx. 7:10 p.m.
Curtain at 7:30 p.m.
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“A frisky mingling of Elizabethan wit and Nehru-jacketed satire … Kahn’s
production dexterously brings to the fore the play’s perspective on the
piquant bylaws of love, their universality confirmed in madras and bell-bottoms.”
Peter Marks, The Washington Post
With Love's Labor's Lost, Shakespeare created a feast of language,
rich with rhymed verse, wordplay and witty banter. The play begins with King
Navarre and three of his noblemen renouncing the world's pleasures—especially
women—for the world of academia. But when the Princess of France and her three
ladies arrive, the men find themselves helplessly falling in love. With clever
repartee, Shakespeare depicts a battle of the sexes where the men receive their
schooling from four learned ladies. Michael Kahn sets Shakespeare's tale of the
search for enlightenment in India in the 1960s, where the King of Navarre is
a Maharishi-like character visited by an American rock band.
This production of Love's Labor's Lost was presented on our mainstage
in 2006 and at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England,
that summer.
This production is part of
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