Eagerly-awaited Royal Shakespeare Company joint productions Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing are transferring to the West End in December
Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing are coming to the West End
Representing the start of the First World War with Love’s Labour’s Lost and the end of the War in Much Ado About Nothing, renamed as Love’s Labour’s Won, RSC director Christopher Luscombe brings these two acclaimed productions to the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
The productions met great commendation at the RSC Stratford in 2014.
Love’s Labour’s Lost is the first play of the sequel. Set in 1914, the story follows the exploits of the King and his friends, who have been swearing off women for several years. When the Princess of France and her entourage arrive, the King and his cronies are sorely tested as a comical battle of the sexes unwinds. When news that the First World War is breaking out the themes of masculine pursuit of idealism and love versus cold reality are tried to the maximum.
Praised by The Telegraph’s Dominic Cavendish as being the “Most blissfully entertaining and emotionally involving RSC offering I’ve seen in ages,” Love’s Labour’s Lost is showing at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 12 December 2016 until the 17 March 2017.
Much Ado About Nothing – aka Love’s Labour’s Won – will show at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 9 December 2016 until 18 March 2017.
Hailed as: “The atmosphere is Downton Abbey with a dash of Charley’s Aunt, and the design is a marvel of hydraulic movement,” Much Ado About Nothing is presented as a follow up to Love’s Labour’s Lost.
The play focuses on two men returning from the trenches of World War One, and attempting to rekindle romance with their loved ones. Though in typical Shakespearean comedy style, nothing quite goes as it seems. Will the suspicious and bickering couples get to truth and stop arguing for long enough to get married?
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