LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST & MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Theatre Royal, Haymarket

There is nothing original about the RSC setting Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost in the Edwardian era. It has been done many times before. Christopher Luscombe’s originality is to stage it as a double bill with Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and set Much Ado in 1918. Love’s Labour’s ends in 1914 and the young men depart for World War 1. Much Ado begins with the young men returning from the war. These two comedies now share the same English country house setting and the productions are an absolute delight.