Love's Labour's Lost (Programme 2015)

Director: Stephen Jameson

Duration: 2 hours and 20 minutes incl. intermission

Prices: A

Admission 45 minutes before the beginning of the performance

As a director, manager of the Mountview Academy of Theatre Art and lecturer at Neuss' Spring Workshops, Stephen Jameson is coming to the Globe as a distinguished expert with a strong cast of xy actors. “Love's Labour's Lost“ is on the programme. The only difference is that the Puritan intellectual King of Navarra no longer holds court in the Italian Renaissance but rather at Harvard University in 1876, which was a male bastion at that point in time. Its tranquility is, however, severely disturbed by the neighbouring “blue-stocking“ Radcliffe College out of which the Princess of France, together with her radical sisters, badger the men...

Not until 100 years later, 1976, Harvard merges with Radcliffe and introduces coeducation. This time period also provides the music, of which there will be plenty!

German Premiere

In English

Scene sequence available in German