| Huntington Theatre's "Love's Labour's Lost" |
[May. 17th, 2006|11:58 pm] |
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I had always believed that you couldn't do a more-or-less straight production of Love's Labour's Lost -- the basic structure of it works for a modern comedy, but it's best used as a framework to hang your own work off of. I thought that a lot of the humor in this play was too much based in the peculiarities of the late sixteenth century to translate directly for a modern audience.
The Huntington Theatre Company has proven me wrong.
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