Spectacle Theatre at Princeton High School will be presenting an innovative staging of Shakespeare’s comedy "Love’s Labour’s Lost" (1596) on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the PHS Auditorium.
All proceeds from Saturday’s performance ticket sales, concessions and donations will benefit Hurricane Katrina relief.
Directed by Patricia Wray, Spectacle Theatre’s production is set in the 1960s, with a Motown soundtrack that underscores the love theme and youthful drive of the play. Several of the male roles will be played by females, allowing for more couples and more romantic hijinks. When they were first performed, Shakespeare’s comedies always included music.
The main plot of "Love’s Labour’s Lost" centers on the king of Navarre and three noblemen, who believe that education and love are mutually exclusive. When a French princess and her three ladies visit the court, the lovers discover that there is no true learning without true love.
The minor plot is filled with comic stock characters the verbose professor, the braggart soldier, the shy cleric, the cunning fool, the loyal page, and the bumbling constable.
Tickets are $5 for students and senior citizens, $7 for adults, at the door.

