On Thursday 1st October, 2009 a group of fifty four A Level students and staff, journeyed to the Globe Theatre, London to experience a performance of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.  Tying in very neatly with the A2 English Literature ‘Love through the Age’ theme, students enjoyed witnessing the trials and tribulations of love in all its theatrical glory!

“We had excellent seats in the middle of the balcony and were able to see the stage as well as the rest of the auditorium. There was a ripple of excitement surrounding the audience and the atmosphere was full of anticipation. The play started off with musicians playing a traditional Elizabethan jig before the action commenced. We all agreed it took a while for us to tune into the language, but once we did the humour and crude jokes of one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies soon had us in hysterics.

Love’s Labour’s Lost tells the story of four men and four women, whose trickery, jest and deception involved hilarious scenes of men rolling across the stage, unwilling audience participation, and the inevitable presence of pigeons in the open arena!

The play closed with an impressive operatic chorus, and the actors left the stage to immense applause”. 

S Easterby-Smith, Head Girl.