Love’s Labour’s Lost Digital Playbill

Directed by Carter Gill
Scenic Design by Rob Dutiel
Costume Design by Rebecca Ming
Lighting Design by Ray Recht*
Hair and Makeup Design by Mikayla Carleo
Properties by Ava Cintron
Production Stage Management by Timmy Costello
Original Music by Christine Riley

*member, United Scenic Artists Local USA 829

This show runs approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes including one 10 minute intermission. 

CONTENT NOTE:

Love’s Labour’s Lost contains: themes of loss, death, grief and violence; sword fighting; comic violence; strong language and sexual jokes; blood; and flashing lights. 

DIRECTOR’S NOTE:

Our company’s goal is to present to you a story, yes, about love and, as the title suggests, the grief of loss. We chose an academic setting during the late 1950s with all female and non-binary identifying lovers to highlight the risk and revolution that it takes to lead an authentic life in contrast to an accepted life. Our home team characters in Navarre take an oath to deny themselves physical pleasure and social freedom in an effort to focus on the betterment of their minds in an isolated academic setting, specifically from other women. The Queen of Navarre and her courtiers, traditionally played by men, have made a pact to refuse their bodies rest, food, and love in all of its forms; they, quite simply, do not know themselves and have chosen an inward retreat as their education. Their oath loses momentum as soon as the Princess of France and her ambassadors arrive to claim the land and money owed to the waning King of France. The feeling of falling in love moves the academic Court of Navarre toward the discovery that they stand to learn and grow more in relationship than they do in isolation. They are, in a sense, falling for people that they should not be falling for, according to their law, and it is changing the way they see the world. Their bodies, minds, and hearts cannot help but teach them more of what they need in a life than their scholarship and ambition do. Love’s Labour’s Lost is unlike any other Shakespeare comedy in that it doesn’t end in marriage, but in a promise and a hope. Bienvenue! Huzzah!

-Carter Gill 

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