Steven Maler, the Founding Artistic Director of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, joined Boston Public Radio to talk about this year's Shakespeare on the Common. He said that after last year's intense production of King Lear he wanted something lighter this summer, and decided on Love's Labour's Lost, which Maler describes as "light and frothy."
This turned out to be an auspicious choice. “The world that we live in how is so bleak and so unhappy,” Maler said. “To be able to laugh, to be able share some joy, to be able to look at the world through the fresh naive eyes of these young lovers I think is going to be a very very welcome experience on the Boston Common this summer."
The play tells the story of four young men who promise to forego food, sleep, and women in order to focus their energy on more scholarly endeavors, only to have four beautiful young women turn up on their doorstep, which of course throws a bit of a wrench into their plans. To hear Steven Maler's full conversation on Boston Public Radio cluck on the audio link above. Click here to learn more about free Shakespeare on the Common.
