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A
la "Sex and the City"
"Love's
Labour's Lost is a festival of language, an exuberant
fireworks display in which Shakespeare seems to seek
the limits of his verbal resources, and discovers that
there are none."
--Harold Bloom
Take
four young women.
They are rich. They are powerful. They are friends.
Now add the realization that they are throwing their
lives away on parties, men, and good times. The pendulum
swings. One of them suggests a vow—no more excess
and no more men; just hard study and three years of
contemplation. They all take the vow and swear to save
each other from backsliding… Now add four attractive
men sent to the women on a serious business matter and
the strains begin to tell!
A
modern tale, set in southern France in 2003, yet written
400 years ago. The male roles have been “rewritten”
as female roles, and vice versa, to make this version
of Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s
Lost” a story of joy, friendship, sex and love
in the 21st century. Think Shakespeare meets Sex and
the City!
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