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AT THE A&S NEAREST YOU. A Royal Shakespearean welcome awaits at The very famous restaurant in Brooklyn. Loves The acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company is again appearing at the neighboring Brooklyn Academy of Music. Before curtain, let us make you welcome in the style that has made us a famous dining tradition for nearly a century. Feast with Elizabethan gusto.Then be off to your seats warm and happy. Great dining and great theater, what a famous idea. ; - Labour's Brooklyn's Landmark Seafood & Steak House (Est. 1879) GAGE&TOLLNER 372 Fulton Street (betw. Boro Hall & the Brooklyn Academy) Please make reservations early, call 875-5181 except Sunday. Amex & Diners. Lost

Plot: The King of Navarre and three of his courtiers swear to seclude themselves for three years in a 'little Academe', eamperclown forgoing all women and devoting themselves to study. See what Elm The plan is jeopardized by the arrival of the Princess of it was like France, with three ladies-in-waiting, to discuss affairs of to drink and dine in the state. The four men fall in love with the four ladies, and Park Slope's newest each secretly sends a vow of love. They find each other out in turn. Their little Academe is in ruins. Meanwhile, (and oldest?) bar and restaurant. on a more human level, the local inhabitants echo the Tues-Sun 4 PM. to 2 A.M. dinner 5PM. to 12 preoccupations of the court. The play ends with a song. Sunday Brunch 12 to 3 Love's Labour's Lost was written sometime between 847 Union Street 638-0860 Er- 1593-1595. The variety of metrical forms, and quantity of rhyme, indicate that Love's Labour's Lost dates from a time when Shakespeare was busy writing poems as well as plays. The play is rooted in its period, ringing the changes on the conventional comedy of the time, with rhyme, paradox and reversed expectations, while dis- covering, in fits and starts, the comedy of mood and char- Through a grant offer from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Royal Shakespeare Company will conduct special acter which we now take for granted, but which Shake- educational programs at New York University, the University of Den- speare was forging for himself. Most likely it was first ver, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. This residency project written for performance in the garden of some great will run concurrently with public performances here, at the Brooklyn Elizabethan country house, perhaps when the theatres Bonfi Is Theatre, and the Orpheum Academy of Music, at Denver's plague, before being revised, hastily, for Theatre and the Recital Hall in Omaha, giving the university students were closed by a first-hand opportunity to learn about dramatic literature from one the public stage. The pageants within it - the Muscovites, of the world's leading theatrical companies. the Nine Worthies, and the Owl and the Cuckoo - derive At New York University, workshops for students and faculty will be from the tradition of Royal Entertainments and Progresses. held all during February and the last two weeks of March on various The play was performed at court in 1597, and was no aspects of Shakespeare's plays. Seminars, poetry readings, and some doubt a topical success, playing on the gossip and in-jokes regular classes during this time will primarily focus on Shakespeare of the time. as literature. From March 3-9, classes at the University of Denver will RSC members to work closely with stu- be rescheduled to allow the After its own time, there is no record of it on stage again and faculty on various aspects of Elizabethan literature. And, dents began while at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, from March 10-15, the until the middle of the nineteenth century, when it Company will conduct courses on such topics as Shakespeare's lan- to be reinstated as a delightful comedy in its own right, guage as poetry and music in Shakespeare. moving, in its realistic observation of adolescence, toward The National Endowment for the Humanities is a Federal agency now Shakespeare's mature view that marriage is the axle of in its 10th year of grant making. One of its goals is to foster education civilized life, "And when love speaks, the voice of all the in, and public understanding and appreciation of, the humanities. To gods/Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony." this end it has consistently endeavored to make full utilization of all available resources to bring the humanities to the desired audience. This grant is a further example of the Humanities Endowment's effort to use every means, mechanism and medium available to help bring the riches and insights of the humanities to the population of the nation. Love's Labour's Lost

THE COURT OF NAVARRE THE LOCAL INHABITANTS

FERDINAND King of Navarre David Suchet DULL a Constable Denis Holmes LONGAVI L LE Robert Ashby 11 COSTARD a Clown Mike Gwilym DUMAINE Lords attending the King Michael Ensign JAQUENETTA a Country Wench Louise Jameson BEROWNE Ian Richardson A FORESTER Gavin Campbell DON ADRIANO de ARMADO Tony Church HOLOFERNES a Schoolmaster Norman Rodway MOTH his Page Martin Lev SIR NATHANIEL a Curate Jeffrey Dench

THE FRENCH EMBASSAGE Navarre Lords, Foresters, Villagers: Annette Badland Doyne Byrd Gavin Campbell John Labanowski PRINCESS OF FRANCE Susan Fleetwood BOYET Chamberlain to the Princess Patrick Godfrey Musicians: MARIA Lynette Davies Gordon Bennett (Trumpet), William Grant (Oboe), KATHARINE Ladies attending the Princess Janet Chappell Roger Hellyer (Bassoon), Peter Morris (Horn), ROSALINE Estelle Kohler Robert Pritchard (Trumpet), Ian Reynolds (Flute), FRENCH LORD Wilfred Grove John Riley (Percussion), David Statham (Horn), MARCADE a Royal Messenger John Labanowski Robin Weatherall (Percussion).

Act One is about 1 hour, 30 minutes. Act Two is about 1 hour, 5 minutes. There will be one interval of 15 minutes.

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The Brooklyn Academy of Music henry's end 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217 (212)636-4100 Harvey Lichtenstein Executive Director Judith E. Daykin Director of Operations brooklyn hts. most interesting restaurant Sharon Rupert Director of Finance Charles Ziff Director of Promotion and Audience Development before the theatre, after the theatre - or any time for Jane Ward Production Manager dinner, soups, salads, burgers, omelettes, or William Mintzer Lighting Consultant to BAM one of our shamelessly decadent desserts. Maribeth Gilbert Theatre Manager Richard Givens Assistant Theatre Manager 44 henry st., brooklyn, ny, 834-1776 Reginald S. Tonry Building Manager t, w, th - 6 to mid. Daniel J. Sullivan Box Office Treasurer f - 6 to 1 Betty Rosendorn Children's Program Manager sat. - noon to 1 sun. - noon to mid.

The St. Felix Street Corporation, a non-profit organization operating the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Abraham D. Beame, Honorary Chairman/Paul Lepercq, Chairman/Dan Seymour, Vice- Chairman/Donald M. Blinken, President/Harvey Lichtenstein, Secretary and Executive Director/Donald Moore, Treasurer/Mrs. Claire E. Bodian, ex-officio/Donald H. Elliott/William Josephson/I. Stanley Kriegel/ Samuel Lindenbaum/W. Barnabas McHenry/William Tobey/Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., Commissioner P.R.C.A. and Sebastian Leone, Brooklyn BAM EVENTS... Borough President, members ex-officio.

Andy deGroat The Brooklyn Academy of Music gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council February 13 - 16 on the Arts, and the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Adminis- tration of the City of New York. The Brooklyn Academy building is Flicks: His Girl Friday owned by the City of New York and funds for its maintenance are ad- February 14 ministered by the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Administration, Abraham Beame, Mayor, Edward L. Weisl, Jr., Administrator. ' Chelsea: Santa Anita '42 February 18 - March 16 The taking of photographs or the use of recording devices in this theatre is strictly forbidden. Flicks: Fury and The Talk of The Town February 21 Directory of Facilities and Services Royal Shakespeare Company: Lear Box Office Hours: Monday, Noon to 6:00pm Tuesday through Saturday, Noon - 9:00pm February 22, 25, and March 18 - 30 Sunday - Performance Times Only Lost and Found: Telephone 636-4100 Royal Shakespeare Company: Summerfolk February 25 - March 2 Lounges and Restrooms: Opera House Ladies: Orchestra and Balcony Levels Kei Takei's Moving Earth Men: Mezzanine and Balcony Levels Music Hall February 27 - March 2 Ladies: Orchestra Level Men: Balcony Level Brooklyn Philharmonia: Lorin Hollander Lepercq Space March 4 Ladies: Theatre Level Men: Theatre Level

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