Love’s Labour’s Lost

Synopsis: Video recording using a single, fixed, camera of the 1984 Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Directed by Barry Kyle with Kenneth Branagh as the King of Navarre and Josette Simon as Rosaline.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 10 Jan 1985
Duration: 180 mins

General: `Bob Crowley’s set, beautifully lit by Brian Harris, captures the mellowness of this production’s wistful allegory of growing up. Falling leaves, sheaves of corn, peasants from a Millet canvas, cupped parasols, like flowers closed in sleep, opening like white mushrooms." Martin Hoyle, Financial Times (8 August 1985). N.B. The lighting at the RST was designed by Chris Ellis; Brian Harris lit the Barbican production.
History: Press night 10 October 1984. The production transferred to the Barbican.
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: Warren, Roger Shakespeare Quarterly 36 (1985) pp 79-87 (review article).

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB