Join Head of School Zaq Roberts at Santa Cruz Shakespeare for an evening of Love’s Labor’s Lost! Each participant will get an advance copy of the play to read; you’ll have a private pre-show conversation with Artistic Director Mike Ryan, and prime seats to the play. Potluck meal with wines of Spain provided by Zaq.

Love's Labor's Lost is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, written sometime in the 1590s. It pits the strength of romantic love against that of fraternal love and obligation, providing great insight into the politics of love, marriage and power. The play integrates sophisticated wordplay and bawdy humor, and has an early version of the "play within a play" device that Shakespeare used in other works written around the same time, such as Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. It has a highly unusual denouement for a comedy, which is the death of a major figure's father; thus, instead of ending in marriages all around, the women exert their authority to make the men wait through a year of mourning to prove their love is true.

Donated by Head of School, Zachary Roberts, and Santa Cruz Shakespeare