"brady bunch" (from ben radcliffe's instagram)

Wit to Woo

LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Thursday 25th April 2024 Three men and a King pledge to devote the next three years of their lives to study, abstinence and celibacy.  Of course, as soon as the oath is signed, along come four beauties on a diplomatic mission.  Each of the men starts writing love notes and poems to one of the beauties, behind his confederates’…

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Sebastian De Souza, Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich and Brandon Bassir. Fair Play (2023)

Bridgerton star Luke Thompson reveals an appetite for for high jinks and tomfoolery as Berowne, the King of Navarre’s chief attendant and fellow scholar who, along with two fellow young lords, promises to forswear women for three years. This is Shakespeare’s early romantic comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Thompson provides just the right comic touch to pull it off. He and his fellow castmates seem very much at home in director Emily Burns’ version, which she places in a swanky spa called Navarre nestled on a South Pacific island. It’s the perfect curtain raiser for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new co-artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey, who opened Burns’ production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on Thursday night. The choice of play was smart. For starters it made sense to open with a Shakespeare. Would have been a bit daft to present a Noel Coward. And that it’s one of the Bard’s lighter works rather then one of his tragedies is a good thing. There’s time enough in future seasons for heavies like Lear and Macbeth. Thompson also shows off his romantic chops to good effect in Season 3 of Bridgerton. Fellow actors in Love’s Labour’s Lost include Abiola Owokoniran, Eric Stroud, Brandon Bassir, Jack Bardot, Melanie-Joyce Bermudez, Ivanna Kimbook, Amy Griffiths, Sarita Gabon, Jordan Metcalfe, Jeffrey Chekai, Tony Gardner, Kok-Hwa -Lie, Nathan Foad, Marianella Phillips, Jeffrey Chekai, Shailan Gohil, Tika Mu’Tamir and Jamie Tyler.

Deadline praising Luke Thompson (and the play overall) and his leading man chops in Love's Labour's Lost!

Brandon Bassir (at Phil Sharp - Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/B04NDi0lqos/?igshid=doexvgi3stmp

"The most fun I've ever had and the sweatiest I've ever been." (from niall o'mara's instagram)

Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich and Brandon Bassir. Fair Play (2023)

Brandon Bassir, Sebastian DeSouza, Rich Sommer, Phoebe Dynevore, Alden Ehrenreich and writer-director Chloe Dumont. attend the premiere of "Fair Play" at Library Center Theater in Park City, Utah on January 20, 2023. Question and answer session.

Brandon Bassir, Sebastian DeSouza, Rich Sommer, Phoebe Dynevore, Alden Ehrenreich and writer-director Chloe Dumont. attend the premiere of "Fair Play" at Library Center Theater in Park City, Utah on January 20, 2023. Question and answer session.

Brandon Bassir, Rich Sommer, Phoebe Dynevore, writer-director Chloe Dumont, Alden Ehrenreich and Sebastian DeSouza attend the premiere of "Fair Play" at Library Center Theater in Park City, Utah on January 20, 2023. Cast photos shoot.

Alden Ehrenreich, Phoebe Dynevor, Nenad Stefanovic, Branimir Ciric, Eddie Marsan, Rich Sommer, Sia Alipour, Brandon Bassir and Freddy Sawyer. Fair Play (2023)

Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, Sia Alipour, Jovana Miletic and Brandon Bassir. Fair Play (2023)

Alden Ehrenreich, Sia Alipour, Jovana Miletic, Brandon Bassir and Phoebe Dynevor. Fair Play (2023)

Alden Ehrenreich, Brandon Bassir, Sia Alipour, Phoebe Dynevor, Eddie Marsan and Rich Sommer. Fair Play (2023)

Alden Ehrenreich, Brandon Bassir, Sia Alipour, Phoebe Dynevor, Eddie Marsan and Rich Sommer. Fair Play (2023)

Alden Ehrenreich, Brandon Bassir, Phoebe Dynevor and Rich Sommer. Fair Play (2023)