SOURCE: Morley, Sheridan. “Love, Language, and Lyricism: Sheridan Morley Enjoys a Week of Poetic Inspiration from Shakespeare to Larkin.” New Statesman 132, no. 4628 (10 March 2003): 46.

In the following excerpted review, Morley lauds Trevor Nunn's 2003 National Theatre production of Love's Labour's Lost, particularly Joseph Fiennes's performance as Berowne.

After six years, Trevor Nunn bids farewell to the National Theatre. His parting play Love's Labour's Lost, reflects both his RSC beginnings in the reinvention of minor Shakespearian comedies and his interest in classic musicals—My Fair Lady, Oklahoma! and Anything Goes are all either at the National or have moved on from there. Indeed, this new Love's Labour's Lost is cross cast with Anything Goes and there are moments when it seems to want to be a musical—preferably one by Cole Porter or Noel Coward.

Nunn's most striking concept is to set this Love's Labour's Lost as a dream sequence on...