Love’s Labour’s Lost

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1993 production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Directed by Ian Judge with Jeremy Northam as Berowne and Jenny Quayle as the Princess of France.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 11 Jan 1994
Duration: 157 mins

Notes: A recording was also made of a performance at the Barbican (matinee) 11 June 1984.
General: "John Gunter’s design of Oxford yellowstone, with a spire-strewn skyline, and Deirdre Clancy’s costumes - cream suits, boaters, hunting gear, sequinned togas and toques - reek of sunlit quadrangles, Magdalen deer park, summer-term theatricals and boating on the Cherwell." Michael Coveney, The Observer (London) 31 October 1993.
History: Press night 27 October 1993
Awards: Deirdre Clancy won an Oliver Award for Best Costume Designer for this production.
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: Luscombe, Christopher ‘Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice and Moth in Love’s Labour’s Lost’ in Smallwood, Robert (ed) Players of Shakespeare 4: Further Essays in Shakespearian Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998) pp 18-29.
[Luscombe discusses his roles as Launcelot Gobbo in David Thacker’s The Merchant of Venice and as Moth in Ian Judge’s Love’s Labor’s Lost].

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