Theatre & Music
UIC Theatre: Love’s Labour’s Lost (online)
Friday, November 20, 2020–Sunday, December 06, 2020
Love’s Labour’s Lost is one of Shakespeare’s early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years in order to focus on study and fasting. Their subsequent infatuation with the visiting Princess of France and her ladies makes them forsworn. The play draws on themes of love and desire, reckoning and rationalization, and reality versus fantasy.
POST-SHOW TALKS
Special Guest: Jeffery Gore
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Topics: Romance, Wit, and Loss