Globe's Love's Labour's Lost Opens in NYC Dec. 10

By Adam Hetrick
10 Dec 2009

Love's Labour's Lost stars Jack Farthing, William Mannering and Phil Cumbus
Love's Labour's Lost stars Jack Farthing, William Mannering and Phil Cumbus
Photo by John Haynes

Shakespeare's Globe Theater production of Love's Labour's Lost officially opens at Pace University Dec. 10 following previews that began Dec. 8.

Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole directs the production that will play a limited run through Dec. 20. The Globe Theater touring troupe last performed in New York in 2005 with a sold-out production of Measure for Measure.

Love's Labour's Lost features Michelle Terry as The Princess of France and Trystan Gravelle as Berowne with Seroca Davis, Christopher Godwin, William Mannering, Rhiannon Oliver and Andrew Vincent.

Completing the cast are Jade Anouka, Phil Cumbus, Jack Farthing, Patrick Godfrey, Fergal McElherron, Thomasin Rand, Paul Ready, Siân Robins-Grace and Tom Stuart.

The engagement, which uses Renaissance staging, costumes, music and seating akin to The Globe experience, has designs by Jonathan Fensom and music by Claire van Kampen.

According to press notes, "Self-denial is in fashion at the court of Navarre where the young King and three of his noblemen solemnly forswear the company of women in favor of serious study. But the lovely, sharp-tongued Princess of France and her all-too-lovely entourage soon arrive with other ideas and it isn’t long before young love, with its flirtations, hesitations and embarrassments, has broken every self-imposed rule set by the young men."

For tickets, priced $25-$75, phone (212) 868-4444 or visit Smarttix. The performances take place at the Michael Schimmel Center at Pace University, located at 3 Spruce Street, east of Park Row, near the corner of Gold Street in New York City.