Love’s Labour’s Lost

I began the day with a drive down to south Denver where I had lunch with my old friend Kate. It was nice to catch up and hear how things have been going. Afterwards I made my way back up to Boulder, and after a little rest I headed back to CU to see the fourth play in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Love’s Labour’s Lost. It was a nice production in the outdoor Mary Rippon Theatre on a very warm night. I hadn’t seen this play in quite a while. It seemed like a classic Shakespeare romantic comedy with lots of screwball dialog, people overcome by romance, and mistaken identities. There were lots of comedic elements that I don’t always love in some of the other plays, all jammed into one, but it was enjoyable. The only main difference from other comedies was that at the end everything wasn’t cleanly resolved, but rather pointed to a resolution a year after the end of the play. The cast did a very good job. The cast was much the same as in Cyrano de Bergerac. A very nice evening out.
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