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Love's Labour's Lost/Much Ado About Nothing, RSC, Theatre Royal Haymarket by Alexandra.coghlan

These sunny comedies are rich in delight but lacking in darkness"The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo." A sudden cold breeze blows through the endless summer afternoon of Love's Labour's Lost in the play's final moments. Death enters Shakespeare's Edenic garden and innocence is lost. But what, asks director Christopher Luscombe, might happen if those songs were to return? What if these youthful co…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:48AM on December 16, 2016

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