10 September - 17 October 1992

LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST

by William Shakespeare

King Ferdinand of Navarre STEPHEN TOMPKINSON
Berowne LINUS ROACHE
Longaville RAY FEARON
Dumaine MEREDITH DAVIES
Don Adriano de Armado BERNARD BRESSLAW
Moth SUE DEVANEY
Holofernes DAVID ROSS
Sir Nathaniel ROGER DELVES-BROUGHTON
Dull ANDY GREENHALGH
Costard PETER-HUGO DALY
Jaquenetta SOPHIE STANTON
A Forester, Marcade GORDON ROWE
Princess of France PATRICIA KERRIGAN
Rosaline SUZAN SYLVESTER
Maria CHARLOTTE JONES
Katharine VALERIE GOGAN
Boyet JOHN BENNETT

Director JAMES MACDONALD
Designer KANDIS COOK
Lighting ACE McCARRON
Sound PHILIP CLIFFORD
Music MARK VIBRANS
Dialect Coach PENNY DYER
Text Work HELEN STRANGE
Musician DMITRI VAN ZWANENBERG

"This Love's Labour's Lost is touching, carefully orchestrated and very funny. Macdonald trusts the playwright, and the audience reaps an unusually satisfying reward." Michael Ý Schmidt The Daily Telegraph

"...in this handsome staging of the Bard's bitter-sweet and once neglected comedy....Bresslaw is marvellously at ease and his handling of the text is surpassed only by John Bennett, who rolls the language round his tongue like an old wine. The younger players adopt a brisker approach, but they are never less than precise and brimming with character. The ripest comedy comes from Peter-Hugo Daly as a baggy-trousered yokel. He milks laughs from lines which lie dead on the page. Stephen Tompkinson...shines as a manic Ferdinand, and Patricia Kerrigan is both regal and flirtatious as the Princess of France."
Gerry Dempsey Daily Express

"...a generously funny evening...Linus Roache's scintillating portrayal of Berowne...This unusual ending, with Mark Vibrans' fine setting of the song and Ace McCarron's lighting, is beautifully managed - a fine conclusion to an intelligent and exhilarating production."
Jeffrey Wainwright The Independent '