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Article: Don't miss this display of witty wordplay.(Arts & Literature)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 26, 2005
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Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard
ASHLAND - If you can see only one play in Ashland this summer, "Love's Labor's Lost," at the outdoor Elizabethan Theatre, is the one to head for.
The play is William Shakespeare's most outlandish comedy, one in which a master wordsmith cut loose from the strictures of plot and character to play masterfully with language.
There is, in fact, little else going on here; such plot as can be found (there is one, sort of) exists solely to support long, hallucinatory riffs that sound like the Marx Brothers going head to head with Monty Python.
On top of that, this is one of the most visually beautiful ...