Meet your Love's Labour's Lost cast!

We're delighted to announce the cast for our vibrant new adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, Love’s Labour’s Lost (more or less) – a co-production between ourselves and Prescot’s Shakespeare North Playhouse: say a big hello to the wonderful Thomas Cotran, Alice Imelda, Linford Johnson, David Kirkbride, Annie Kirkman, Alyce Liburd, Timothy Adam Lucas and Jo Patmore!

Love’s Labour’s Lost (more or less) will see David Kirkbride and Alyce Liburd return to the SJT, having both appeared in 2023's UK Theatre Award-nominated The Comedy of Errors (more or less), and we're also thrilled to be welcoming back Annie Kirkman, who'll you'll have seen in Beauty and the Beast, Dracula, and John Godber's Perfect Pitch.

This new adaptation, again by Elizabeth Godber and Nick Lane, will set the action in the 90s, with a stag do and hen party from the same wedding both ending up in Ibiza - what could go wrong? Everything...

Directed by Paul Robinson, it’s designed by Jess Curtis, with lighting design by Jane Lalljee. The composer and sound designer is Simon Slater, and the musical director is Alex Weatherhill. The choreographer is Stephanie Dattani. The wardrobe supervisor is Julia Perry-Mook, and the scenic artist is Julia Wray. Casting is by Sarah Hughes CDG.

Co-writer Elizabeth Godber says:

“I’m so excited to be back working with Nick, the SJT and Shakespeare North on another hilarious Shakespeare adaptation.

"Love's Labour's Lost is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays, and to get the chance to play around with the language, develop the (already great) female characters, and add in plenty of 1990s pop classics has been an absolute joy! I can’t wait for audiences to come and see the show it's funny, irreverent, and I'm sure Shakespeare would approve – he would have definitely been a Britpop fan!”

Director Paul Robinson, SJT Artistic Director, says:

“We had the most enormous fun making The Comedy of Errors (more or less) in the spring of 2023, and our audiences did too!

"We couldn’t resist following it up with another of the Bard’s early comedies, this time set a decade later in the midst of the party era that was the 1990s. We’ll again be including some great music from the period, and just wait until you see those 90s fashions again…”

Tickets are on sale now and you can get them from £10 here, by phoning the Box Office on 01723 370 541, or dropping in next time you're passing.