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Love’s Labour’s Lost (More or Less) review – lads on tour in Ibiza swear off sex | Theatre

sTundad has declined. He measured it for years when Shakespeare challenged his character in his early comedies. To lead a life of meditative research, the King of Navarre persuades his friends to join the maligned regime of three years, demanding that women be abandoned and cut back on food and sleep.

In contrast, playwrights Elizabeth Godber and Nick Lane revisited the material, but cut down their pledges. Their young men should last for three days.

That seems rather weak at the opening of the show at the start of Lent, but to be fair, the context has also changed. Berowne (Thomas Cotran), Longdumain (Linford Johnson), and Ferdy (Timothy Adam Lucas) agree to avoid women's companies everywhere in Ibiza, the throbbing mind of hedonism in the 1990s. For all the other young people jumping out of Manchester Airport, meeting women is the key.

A weak challenge… Timothy Adam Lucas lost (more or less) in the labor of love. Photo: Patch Dolan

Returning to the blueprint of 2023's The Comedy of Errors (more or less), the writer, a Shakespeare jockey rehash with a pop song environment, reunited with director Paul Robinson and lost Love's Labour in the decade of Blur, The Spice Girls and Pete Tong. operation.

This not only replaces almost the entire contemporary urban poetry, but also strengthens the role of women to equalize their roles with men, but also gives them less respect than the last one. Alice Imelda, Annie Kirkman, Alice Riverd and Joe Patmore are bravely taking this opportunity. They are currently on a mixed Stag and Hen weekend (with additional employment assassin subplots), while Lovelone's Almado (David Kirk Bride) is a resident supplier of Sun Park Holiday Resort.

It's been very messed up so far, but is that disrespectful enough? A truly modern comedy on the subject would have created more temptations for the island apart from an hour cut. Doing pure things in Ibiza will do some. It would be interesting to resist. However, by sticking to Shakespeare's plot, Godbur and Lane minimize the male dilemma. The interests of comics are too low.

Still, the audience delights with old songs, dance routines and outrageous Cher costumes.

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