Love's Labour's Lost...and Found

[ardcarp]

Having recently been to live streamings from the RSC, I can heartily recommend nipping down to the local flea-pit and seeing these productions. (The latter is Much Ado, which they conjecture...somewhat shakily.... was Shakespeare's missing Love's Labour's Found). They're set in pre- and post-WW1 times. It works. Don't ask me why. My only quibble was the Edwardian grand piano on stage being imitated unsuccessfully by some electronic keyboard in the pit. If they can do HIPP for Elizabethan settings, then surely......

But both plays were absolutely absorbing from beginning to end, and at times side-splittingly funny.

[french frank]

Worth looking out for. (I'm probably the only person on earth who thought Branagh's setting of Love's Labours was very clever and effective. I seem to remember the critics loathed it.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm probably the only person on earth who thought Branagh's setting of Love's Labours was very clever and effective

No - there were at least two others who shared your opinion

[french frank]

No - there were at least two others who shared your opinion

I'm by no means a Branagh worshipper but like Rattle he gets some unfair stick.

[Roehre]

Worth looking out for. (I'm probably the only person on earth who thought Branagh's setting of Love's Labours was very clever and effective. I seem to remember the critics loathed it.)

You aren't the only one: it at least makes two of us

[Gordon]

We went to the RSC at Stratford to see Much Ado last January and it was excellent - same cast as this cinema relay. Don't miss it!!

Stayed over nearby and took in the other Shakespeare sites too and has a jolly time, very quiet so had the places to ourselves with much discussion with the guides.