Love's Labour's Lost

The next production will be Love's Labour's Lost.

The production will run at Friargate Theatre, Lower Friargate, from Wednesday December 1 2004 with the Sunday and Monday off until Saturday December 11 including a signed matinee on the last Saturday.

Ticket are £7.50 and £6 concessions and members from the Friargate Theatre
Tel: 0845 961300
Fax 01904-651532
Email boxoffice@rlt.com .

Director's Notes

By Chris Rawson

It is the summer of 1914, the end of the Edwardian era. The last days of peace are dwindling and the guns of the first world war are already sounding in the distance.

That is setting for our fifth production Love's Labour's Lost which will run at the Friargate Theatre, York, from December 1 to 11 2004.

The show will be put on with the help of a £5,000 grant from the Gannett Foundation - a charity arm of the Yorkshire Evening Press's American owners.

The play centres on the temptations of a king and three young men whose vowed intentions to follow a life of celibacy are blown apart when a princess and three other beautiful young women come along.

The love bulldozers, changes lives, priorities and personal realities. Although there is a court, the objective is is not courtly love!

Suggestive innuendoes abound - this is the territory of Cupid "the king of codpieces".

Class warfare goes on as ever - the easy superiority of the aristocrats and the commonsense world weariness of the rustic working class contrast with the scrambling for position of the emerging middle class as shown through the curate Nathaniel and the teacher Holofernes.

The battle of the sexes also features and in this play the women win hands down - their articulate victorious wit heading off the King and his friends at every turn.

All the high spirits and fun do however lead to an end which is not expected, tidy or comfortable.

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