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Dateline: 27th July, 2006
Washington Brings Shakespeare to Stratford Based in Washington DC in the USA, the Shakespeare Theatre Company brings its production of Love’s Labour’s Lost to the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival.
Set in an Indian Ashram in the 1960s, a boy band comes to study under a guru. Transferring the scene to the swinging sixties when fashionable, successful young men - such as the Beatles – went in search of spiritual enlightenment in India, the production offers a contemporary parallel to Shakespeare’s early comedy.
Directed by Shakespeare Theatre Company’s founder and artistic director, Michael Kahn, there are other aspects of Shakespeare’s play that also resonate with that particular time:
“The language of Love’s Labour’s Lost is very much an Elizabethan construct, and the play is actually an investigation and critique of the use of language. But the relationships and the characters seem very, very real and contemporary to me. The men’s facades, the women’s ability to prick those façades with strength and intelligence, making good sport of pedantry … all of those things exist in all of our lives now”. The production runs for eleven performances only from 17th – 26th August, 2006, in the Swan. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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