In the words of the Bard, “It’s a danged good show!”

OK, William Shakespeare never said that.  But he might have put those sentiments into Iambic Pentameter after seeing the Clarence Brown Theatre production of Love’s Labour’s Lost in the Carousel Theatre.

As Willie couldn’t be with us, take a look at what the News-Sentinel’s Harold Duckett had to say about the play:

In set designer Jack Magaw’s magnificently minimal theater-in-the-round presentation that gives Sheakspeare’s river of words an iridescent glow, director John Sipes’ vision of transplanting Love’s Labors’ whimsical kingdom of Navarre to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1920s is successful beyond measure.

It goes on…

If all this is beginning to sound like an overload, it’s merely a Cliffs Notes version of the saturation experience that Clarence Brown Theatre artistic director Calvin Maclean has put together as the perfect antidote for these bleak economic times, at least for a couple of hours.

Read the entire review.

Oh, and you can take a look at Roger’s show photos on flickr.

Love’s Labour’s Lost runs through Sunday, March 15.  Tickets are available through the Clarence Brown Theatre Box Office (865-974-5161) or online.  You can even print your own tickets at home!

In case you missed the performances of The Vagina Monologues in the Clarence Brown Theatre last month, you still have a chance to see it performed in Knoxville this year — this time off-campus. 

The details:

Change the Story of Women!

Join us as we raise funds and awareness to end the violence that affects one in three women around the world.

What: Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues

When: Thursday, March 12th at 7:00pm
Friday, March 13th at 7:00pm
Saturday, March 14th at 2:00pm

Where: World Grotto
16 Market Square

How: $10 tickets available at World Grotto in advance and at the door. Proceeds benefiting the Knoxville YWCA

The Vagina Monologues is made up of a varying number of monologues read by a varying number of women (initially, Eve Ensler performed every monologue herself, with subsequent performances featuring three actresses, and more recent versions featuring a different actress for every role).

Every monologue somehow relates to the vagina, be it through sex, love, rape, menstruation, mutilation, masturbation, birth, orgasm, the variety of names for the vagina, or simply as a physical aspect of the body. A recurring theme throughout the piece is the vagina as a tool of female empowerment, and the ultimate embodiment of individuality.