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Love’s Labour’s Lost review – paella, bullfighting and flamenco make Shakespeare’s farce a fiesta
Shakespeare’s Globe, London Choreographer Carmen Igarza deserves to take a bow as spectacular dance and movement add passion to the seemingly unfinished play The fact that Love’s Labour’s Lost is relatively unloved by Shakespeare producers and scholars is due to this mid-16th-century comedy being an early example of his dramatic craft – an RSC online timeline lists it ninth in the 38 main attributed plays – and an unusually inconclusive ending: the typical act five marry-go-round is suddenly deferred for a year. These problems mean that even purists object less than usual to a solving director
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