Love’s Labor’s Lost Again

Prior to my visit to CoSF in Boulder earlier this summer, it had been 18 years since I’d seen Love’s Labor’s Lost. Tonight I saw it again in the outdoor Elizabethan Theatre as my first play in my visit to OSF in Ashland. While CoSF’s production was quite good, this was simply fantastically entertaining, and a great way to start the visit (putting yesterday aside). It was a modernized/abstract setting, and it added some very modern/rock type music to the production. They made the humor very slapstick and often winked at the audience. The Shakespeare language may have suffered a little, but it was still very fun. The acting was great and many of the individual performances were stand outs. … And I think I finally figured out the meaning of the title in that after all their romancing, they don’t get the automatic happy ending, at least at the end of the play.
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