"Love's Labour's Lost" @ Guild Theatre, Union House, University of Melbourne

The second Melb Uni Shakespeare Co production (I think), and has many of the virtues of the first - irreverence, energy, humour and insight all in spades, to name four. The reimagining of the noblemen of Navarre as a foursome of black tee and tight jeans-clad emo boys (complete with fussy fringes, eyeliner, black nail polish and pouts) is cute and works well, though every scene in which he appeared was stolen by the guy who plays the affected Spaniard Armado (equal parts Inigo Montoya, Jose Feliciano's character in Moulin Rouge, and a criminally misused thesaurus - his line about the "posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon" is priceless) and, to a lesser extent, his page. Ending took me by surprise - I don't know the play - and capped it off nicely, to the strains of "You Can't Always Get What You Want", no less. Didn't think that the acting was of as consistently high a quality as in their Taming of the Shrew (mostly different ensembles) but possibly that was due to my expectations having been raised for this second time round or just my not being quite in the mood on Sat night. (Went, as has become usual with the Shakespeare lately, with Swee Leng.)