Shakespeare’s sharpest comedy of wit and wordplay meets the world of nightlife. Four former DJs have sworn to renounce pleasure and distraction — but when the Princess of France and her companions arrive, their solemn vows soon unravel.

Performed in a bar and underscored by live DJ music, York Shakespeare Project’s bold new Love’s Labour’s Lost mixes sparkling verse with rhythm, dance, and visual flair. A playful, immersive take on Shakespeare’s comedy of love, temptation, and folly.

The York Shakespeare Project is a dedicated amateur community theatre company established in 2001. Their original mission was to perform all of Shakespeare’s known plays in York over a 20-year period, successfully completed in 2022 with The Tempest. The YSP story continues into an exciting new phase (launched in 2023), aiming to perform the plays of Shakespeare alongside the greatest works of his contemporaries over the next 25 years, powered entirely by their passionate, local volunteers.