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
Credits
- Director
- Ian Judge
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Nigel Hess
- Production Design
- Deirdre Clancy
- Cast
Additional Details
- Theatre
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre
- Theatre company
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Historical period
- No period
- Plays
- Love’s Labour’s Lost
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- 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].
Production Company
- Name
Royal Shakespeare Company, Mail Order
- Web
- https://www.rsc.org.uk/buyonline/shopping/index.asp?category=65&sessionid=958647199122126557164598758&deptnum=2 External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01789 748114
- Fax
- 01789 748115
- Address
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 6B
Archive
- Name
Shakespeare Birthplace Collections
- collections@shakespeare.org.uk
- Web
- https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/collections/ External site opens in new window
- Address
- Shakespeare Centre
Henley Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
CV37 6QW
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Love’s Labour’s Lost". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av38196 (Accessed 05 Dec 2024)