Love’s Labour’s Lost review – tech bros get swiped left in pitch perfect japes

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Love’s Labour’s Lost review – tech bros get swiped left in pitch perfect japes

Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonEmily Burns’ modern-day romcom, set on a Pacific island retreat, ramps up the silliness and makes accessible the text’s cloud-parting power and wordplayThis early Shakespearean comedy might be rich in verse but it is a tricky play to pull off for its strained Elizabethan-era wordplay, convoluted subplots and too inevitable downfall of four men who swear off women – only to crack on the arrival of a f…