‘I just knew it would sound incredible!’: why the Globe is giving Shakespeare some flamenco fire

Love’s Labour’s Lost offers a heady mix of passion and death – which makes the Spanish art form a perfect match, says director Indiana Lown-Collins. Our writer joins the theatre’s flamenco bootcamp On a heatwave day in London, Shakespeare’s Globe has turned into a fiesta. Hard-heeled boots strike the wooden boards with rat-a-tat rhythm, skirts swish, a guitar strums, voices rise along with the temperature. Perched in front of the stage is director Indiana Lown-Collins , who is zhooshing up one of Shakespeare’s wordiest plays with a hot flourish of flamenco. Lown-Collins is half-Spanish and gre

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