About the Show

Four nobles’ vows collapse when visiting women spark romance in a flamenco-styled staging.

The comedy follows the King of Navarre and three companions who swear to avoid love and focus on study, only to have their resolve tested when a princess and her entourage arrive on a diplomatic visit. Courtship, wordplay, disguises, and reversals drive the action as attraction undermines their oaths and exposes the limits of rigid ideals.

This production is directed by Indiana Lown-Collins (JMK Award winner for The Solid Life of Sugar Water at Orange Tree Theatre and former Globe Resident Artist), making her Globe Theatre directing debut.

Presented at Shakespeare’s Globe, the play is part of the Summer 2026 season and performed in the open-air Globe Theatre on Bankside.

Critic Reviews (4)

"The choreography, colour, and high spirits have the crowd fully on side. Not everything works but it makes for an enjoyable Iberian minibreak on Bankside and leaves you feeling that it might be fun to try a flamenco class."
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"The whole Spanish thing has been dialled up to 11… it's rare that I've seen a Globe audience having so much fun."
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"Indiana Lown-Collins's Love's Labour's Lost brings the spirit of Andalusia to the Wooden O, fusing flamenco with one of Shakespeare's lesser-known comedies. What could have been a gimmick proves irresistible."
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"Dynamic, witty and deeply musical, it is a production that proves both entertaining and inventive."
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