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Love's Labour's Lost (2007)
![L-R: Katherine [Oona Chaplin], Rosaline [Gemma Arterton], Dull [Andrew Vincent] and the Princess of France [Michelle Terry]. Photo: John Haynes](http://www.globe-education.org/files/imagecache/lb_slideshow/images/LovesLaboursLost_1-7-07_118.jpg "L-R: Katherine [Oona Chaplin], Rosaline [Gemma Arterton], Dull [Andrew Vincent] and the Princess of France [Michelle Terry]. Photo: John Haynes")
Love's Labour's Lost was performed in 2007, as part of the Renaissance and Revolution Season.
Self-denial is in fashion at the court of Navarre where the young King and three of his courtiers solemnly forswear all pleasures in favour of serious study. But the Princess of France and her all-too-lovely entourage have other ideas and it isn’t long before young love, with its glad eyes, hesitations and embarrassments, has broken every self-imposed rule of the all-male ‘academe’.
Shakespeare's boisterous send-up of all those who try to turn their back on life, is a festive parade of every weapon in the youthful playwright's comic arsenal: from excruciating cross-purposes and impersonations, to drunkenness, bust-ups and pratfalls. Even more, it is a joyful banquet of language, groaning with puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parodies.
Creative Team
Director: Dominic Dromgoole
Designer: Jonathan Fensom
Composer: Claire van Kampen
Choreographer: Siân Williams
Cast
Gemma Arterton - Rosaline
John Bett - Sir Nathaniel
Joe Caffrey - Costard
Oona Chaplin - Katherine
Seroca Davis - Moth
Christopher Godwin - Holofernes
Trystan Gravelle - Berowne
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith - Ferdinand, King of Navarre
Cush Jumbo - Maria:
William Mannering - Longaville
David Oakes - Dumaine
Rhiannon Oliver - Jaquenetta
Paul Rider - Boyet
Michelle Terry - Princess of France
Andrew Vincent - Dull
Timothy Walker - Don Armado
Discover the play
• Read rehearsal blogs from:
- Michelle Terry: Princess of France
• Playing the Murderer: Farah Karim-Cooper explains the complex associations behind the hunting scene in Love's Labour's Lost.
