Think back to your first love… Did you seek them out or were they there all along? Did your name float off their tongues and into your ear? Did you think it would last forever or did it seem too good to be true?
Think forward to your favorite read… Is it a book, a play, or a poem? Is it written for young adults, is it a picture book that keeps your eyes dancing? Does the language arrest your mind or is it the plainest speech that speaks a profound truth? Meet us now in this space, the Iseman Theater, and witness one of William Shakespeare’s
LOVE’S LABOR’S LOST
most linguistically indulgent pieces. Shakespeare relishes language and moves fluidly between word games, cultural citations, and verbal allusions—elaborate language darts out of the characters’ mouths like love pelting out the pores of young lovers. Shakespeare uses both that language and love to sober our senses. The realization of love surprises us, leaving us confused instead of cheerful, like a good joke that sends us crying instead of laughing. In this comedic romantic elegy, Shakespeare breaks apart dichotomies that life gives us and instead inserts deep inquiries:
Berowne: What is the end of study, let me know? King: Why, to know which else we should not know. At David Geffen School of Drama, students are not so far from the world of the play themselves—for three years’ time, students, like the Lords of Navarre, have vowed to take up serious study. While youth wants what it wants quickly, it is the marriage of time + knowledge that brings about the greatest gift of all—wisdom. This play is an invitation for all learners of life to attain that fruit.
—Ashley M. Thomas, Production Dramaturg
SHAKESPEARE REPERTORY PROJECTS | 2021–22 SEASON
MARCH 17–19, 2022
Artistic
DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF DRAMA AT YALE
Lighting Design Advisor
James Bundy, Elizabeth Parker Ware Dean Florie Seery, Associate Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., Assistant Dean
Jiahao (Neil) Qiu 邱嘉皓 Assistant Sound Designer and Engineer
Liam Bellman-Sharpe
Assistant Stage Manager
PRESENTS
Aisling Galvin
by William
Associate Safety Advisors
Love’s Labor’s Lost
Production
Shakespeare directed by Jacob Basri Creative Team Choreographer
Rudi Goblen
Music Directors
Jacob Santos Eric Walker
Associate Production Manager
Sky Pang
Cast
in alphabetical order Berowne
Patrick Ball
Assistant Technical Director
Princess of France/Dull
Maia Novi
Abigail C. Onwunali Nomè SiDone
Longaville
Scenic Designer
Katherine/Nathaniel
Don Armado
Costume Designer
Costard
Moth/Boyet
Composer and Sound Designer
Dumaine
King Ferdinand of Navarre
Lighting Designer
Rosaline/Jaquenetta
Marcelo Martínez García Travis Chinick
Evdoxia Ragkou
David DeCarolis
Anthony Grace Brown Tyler Cruz
Rebecca Kent Mihir Kumar
Maria/Holofernes
Abigail C. Onwunali Julian Sanchez Nomè SiDone Matthew Elijah Webb
Sarah Lyddan
Production Dramaturg
Ashley M. Thomas Technical Director
Eric Walker
Fight and Intimacy Directors
Kelsey Rainwater Michael Rossmy
Luke Bulatowicz
Production Electrician
Christina Dragen-Dima Run Crew
Nakia Shalice Avila John Horzen David Mitsch Amelia Windom
Administration Associate Managing Director
Emma Rose Perrin
Assistant Managing Director
Chloe Knight
Management Assistant
Setting Navarre Love’s Labor’s Lost is performed without an intermission.
Stage Manager
Alexus Coney
This production is supported by The Benjamin Mordecai III Production Fund.
Annabel Guevara House Manager
A.J. Roy
Production Photographer
Leigh Busby
David Geffen School of Drama productions are supported by the work of more than 200 faculty and staff members throughout the year.
All patrons must wear masks at all times while inside the theater. Our staff, backstage crew, and artists (when not performing on stage) will also be masked at all times. The taking of photographs or the use of recording devices of any kind in the theater without the written permission of the management is prohibited.
Land Acknowledgment
Yale University acknowledges that Indigenous peoples and nations, including Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Connecticut. We honor and respect the enduring and continuing relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this land. The Shakespeare Repertory Project productions are designed to be learning experiences that complement classroom work, providing a medium for students at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale to combine their individual talents and energies toward the staging of collaboratively created works. Your attendance meaningfully completes this process. THE BENJAMIN MORDECAI III PRODUCTION FUND, established by a graduate of the School, honors the memory of the Tony Award winning producer who served as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, 1982–93, and as Associate Dean and Chair of the Theater Management Program from 1993 until his death in 2005.
MARCH 17–19, 2022
Artistic
DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF DRAMA AT YALE
Lighting Design Advisor
James Bundy, Elizabeth Parker Ware Dean Florie Seery, Associate Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., Assistant Dean
Jiahao (Neil) Qiu 邱嘉皓 Assistant Sound Designer and Engineer
Liam Bellman-Sharpe
Assistant Stage Manager
PRESENTS
Aisling Galvin
by William
Associate Safety Advisors
Love’s Labor’s Lost
Production
Shakespeare directed by Jacob Basri Creative Team Choreographer
Rudi Goblen
Music Directors
Jacob Santos Eric Walker
Associate Production Manager
Sky Pang
Cast
in alphabetical order Berowne
Patrick Ball
Assistant Technical Director
Princess of France/Dull
Maia Novi
Abigail C. Onwunali Nomè SiDone
Longaville
Scenic Designer
Katherine/Nathaniel
Don Armado
Costume Designer
Costard
Moth/Boyet
Composer and Sound Designer
Dumaine
King Ferdinand of Navarre
Lighting Designer
Rosaline/Jaquenetta
Marcelo Martínez García Travis Chinick
Evdoxia Ragkou
David DeCarolis
Anthony Grace Brown Tyler Cruz
Rebecca Kent Mihir Kumar
Maria/Holofernes
Abigail C. Onwunali Julian Sanchez Nomè SiDone Matthew Elijah Webb
Sarah Lyddan
Production Dramaturg
Ashley M. Thomas Technical Director
Eric Walker
Fight and Intimacy Directors
Kelsey Rainwater Michael Rossmy
Luke Bulatowicz
Production Electrician
Christina Dragen-Dima Run Crew
Nakia Shalice Avila John Horzen David Mitsch Amelia Windom
Administration Associate Managing Director
Emma Rose Perrin
Assistant Managing Director
Chloe Knight
Management Assistant
Setting Navarre Love’s Labor’s Lost is performed without an intermission.
Stage Manager
Alexus Coney
This production is supported by The Benjamin Mordecai III Production Fund.
Annabel Guevara House Manager
A.J. Roy
Production Photographer
Leigh Busby
David Geffen School of Drama productions are supported by the work of more than 200 faculty and staff members throughout the year.
All patrons must wear masks at all times while inside the theater. Our staff, backstage crew, and artists (when not performing on stage) will also be masked at all times. The taking of photographs or the use of recording devices of any kind in the theater without the written permission of the management is prohibited.
Land Acknowledgment
Yale University acknowledges that Indigenous peoples and nations, including Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Connecticut. We honor and respect the enduring and continuing relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this land. The Shakespeare Repertory Project productions are designed to be learning experiences that complement classroom work, providing a medium for students at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale to combine their individual talents and energies toward the staging of collaboratively created works. Your attendance meaningfully completes this process. THE BENJAMIN MORDECAI III PRODUCTION FUND, established by a graduate of the School, honors the memory of the Tony Award winning producer who served as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, 1982–93, and as Associate Dean and Chair of the Theater Management Program from 1993 until his death in 2005.
Think back to your first love… Did you seek them out or were they there all along? Did your name float off their tongues and into your ear? Did you think it would last forever or did it seem too good to be true?
Think forward to your favorite read… Is it a book, a play, or a poem? Is it written for young adults, is it a picture book that keeps your eyes dancing? Does the language arrest your mind or is it the plainest speech that speaks a profound truth? Meet us now in this space, the Iseman Theater, and witness one of William Shakespeare’s
LOVE’S LABOR’S LOST
most linguistically indulgent pieces. Shakespeare relishes language and moves fluidly between word games, cultural citations, and verbal allusions—elaborate language darts out of the characters’ mouths like love pelting out the pores of young lovers. Shakespeare uses both that language and love to sober our senses. The realization of love surprises us, leaving us confused instead of cheerful, like a good joke that sends us crying instead of laughing. In this comedic romantic elegy, Shakespeare breaks apart dichotomies that life gives us and instead inserts deep inquiries:
Berowne: What is the end of study, let me know? King: Why, to know which else we should not know. At David Geffen School of Drama, students are not so far from the world of the play themselves—for three years’ time, students, like the Lords of Navarre, have vowed to take up serious study. While youth wants what it wants quickly, it is the marriage of time + knowledge that brings about the greatest gift of all—wisdom. This play is an invitation for all learners of life to attain that fruit.
—Ashley M. Thomas, Production Dramaturg
SHAKESPEARE REPERTORY PROJECTS | 2021–22 SEASON
