A backlit ensemble dances around a performer in yellow at centre, with silhouettes, flung arms and red-blue beams.

Union Theatre, Southwark2022

Love’s Labour’s Lost

The Production

London School of Musical Theatre’s 2022 staging of the Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman musical adaptation of Love’s Labour’s Lost played at Southwark’s Union Theatre in October 2022. The production showcased LSMT’s graduating cohort in an ensemble-led staging of this rarely seen Shakespeare-inspired musical.

45 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Franny Anne Rafferty
Musical Director: Andrew Hilton
Choreographer: Simon Hardwick
Lighting Design: Adam King
Set Design: Zoë Hurwitz
Costume Design: Zoë Hurwitz
Commissioned by: London School of Musical Theatre

An empty artificial-turf stage is lit in teal, with band equipment, plants, a wooden balcony and a reunion-style banner visible.

Metallic balloons spell “LOVE IS LOVE” on a dark balcony, cut by pink and green theatrical light.

A large ensemble surges across the stage in blue light while central performers lift their arms under crossing beams.

A young performer in a dark jacket and pink shirt stands near the front under teal light as others remain behind him.

A man lunges forward in a black jacket while ensemble dancers behind him move through bright green stage light.

Four performers crowd the foreground with urgent expressions, one pointing outward under a green wash.

Three robed performers are lit in blue and violet, with one raising clasped hands into a pointed shape while another watches.

A robed performer stands on an upper level as two round props or hats fly through a blue spotlight.

A woman in pink leans tenderly against a man in sunglasses and a bright patterned shirt beside a microphone stand.

Three women stand close together at the front of the stage in colourful light, holding small props and looking outward.

A performer strides toward the camera with an open red jacket under deep blue light, with musicians dimly behind him.

A singer in red holds a microphone at stage right while a red-lit ensemble crouches and reaches across the floor.

A central man stands under a cool spotlight as seated and standing performers frame him across the stage.

A woman seated on the floor smiles up from a pool of blue light while other figures stand in shadow around her.

A woman sits in a green hammock against a brick wall, hair flying upward as she clutches the fabric.

A young man in a pale cardigan looks upward with hands near his chest, isolated in blue-purple light.

A bespectacled performer with a red bow tie holds papers and a red prop beneath a glowing red heart-shaped light.

Three performers interact closely, with one in glasses gesturing while another crouches between two robed figures.

Dancers reach and balance in silhouette around a central seated figure under red and blue overhead lights.

An ensemble forms a sculptural cluster with raised arms and kneeling figures under saturated magenta and blue lights.

Five faces and hands emerge from near-blackness, each faintly lit as if suspended across the dark stage.

A lone figure in white appears inside a small upper window framed by shimmering blue and pink curtains.

A seated man in a white robe leans over with one hand to his face as loose papers float above him.

A robed performer kneels alone in a tight pool of warm light while a shadowed ensemble holding papers lines the background.

A robed man stands front and centre clutching papers as an ensemble behind him raises sheets in the dark.

Performers swirl around a robed central figure, papers lifted and scattered through blue stage light.

A blonde performer in a white robe holds a sheet of paper and looks forward with a worried expression in blue light.

A lone blonde performer in a white robe balances in a wide, blue-lit stage space with papers on the floor.

Three performers in white robes huddle shoulder to shoulder, staring forward with comic severity.

A smiling man in a white robe points directly outward from the stage, lit by purple-blue light.

A group in black clothing and sunglasses strikes angular dance poses in a cool blue wash.

Four women in robes and a bright pink dress sing or plead together in a tight group under magenta-blue light.

A man in black reaches toward the audience with a wide expression as another performer reacts behind him.

Performers in black dominate the foreground with animated faces while others sit and watch behind them.

Three women stand close under pink and blue light, their expressions tense and attentive.

A crowded stage scene gathers below a balcony where two performers look down from an upper wooden level.

Two performers stand face to face in a tense confrontation, surrounded by cast members with pink fans.

A large ensemble bends and sweeps through a collective movement phrase under bright blue and magenta lights.

A couple embraces at centre front while the ensemble gathers behind them in cool blue light.

Two performers face one another closely on a balcony, framed by brick and overhead blue spotlights.

A woman sits alone beside a green hammock against a brick wall, lit by teal and warm side light.

A performer in a pale yellow suit stands before a brick wall and draped fabric in saturated blue light.

Four performers peer from a small window-like opening, stacked at different heights in blue theatrical light.

A full ensemble crowds toward the front of the stage, arms and faces bursting forward in a final energetic tableau.

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