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===Film, television and radio=== {{Main|Love's Labour's Lost (film)}} [[Kenneth Branagh]]'s [[Love's Labour's Lost (film)|2000 film adaptation]] relocated the setting to the 1930s and attempted to make the play more accessible by turning it into a musical. The film was a box office disappointment.<ref>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=loveslabourslost.htm "''Love's Labour's Lost''"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103131817/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=loveslabourslost.htm |date=3 November 2013 }}, Box Office Mojo, accessed 7 December 2013</ref> The play was one of the last works to be recorded for the [[BBC Television Shakespeare]] project, broadcast in 1985. The production set events in the eighteenth century, the costumes and sets being modeled on the paintings of [[Jean-Antoine Watteau]]. This was the only instance in the project of a work set in a period after Shakespeare's death.<ref>Martin Wiggins, The (BBC DVD) Shakespeare Collection: Viewing Notes (booklet included with the DVD box-set)</ref> The play is featured in an episode of the British TV show, ''[[Doctor Who]]''. The episode, entitled ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]'', focuses on Shakespeare himself and a hypothetical follow-up play, ''Love's Labour's Won'', whose final scene is used as a portal for alien witches to invade Earth. All copies of this play disappear along with the witches.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-3-2007/302-the-shakespeare-code|title=Episode 302, The Shakespeare Code|work=Dr. Who TV|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023165332/http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-3-2007/302-the-shakespeare-code|archive-date=23 October 2013|date=22 September 2009}}</ref> BBC Radio 3 aired a radio adaptation on 16 December 1946, directed by Noel Illif, with music by [[Gerald Finzi]] scored for a small chamber orchestra. The cast included [[Paul Scofield]]. The music was subsequently converted into an orchestral suite.<ref>A written transcript of the production is held at the Birmingham Central Library as part of their Shakespeare Collection. Sanders, Julie. ''Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings'', Cambridge, UK 2007</ref> BBC Radio 3 aired another radio adaptation on 22 February 1979, directed by David Spenser, with music by Derek Oldfield. The cast included [[Michael Kitchen]] as Ferdinand; [[John McEnery]] as Berowne; [[Anna Massey]] as the Princess of France; [[Eileen Atkins]] as Rosaline; and [[Paul Scofield]] as Don Adriano.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av71567|title=Love's Labour's Lost|work=British Universities Film & Video Council|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20131112095028/http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av71567|archive-date=12 November 2013}}</ref> A modern-language adaptation of the play, titled ''Groups of Ten or More People'', was released online by [[Chicago]]-based company Littlebrain Theatre in July 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Littlebrain-Theatre-Announces-Original-Filmed-Play-GROUPS-OF-TEN-OR-MORE-PEOPLE-20200626|title=Littlebrain Theatre Announces Original Filmed Play|work=Broadway World Chicago}}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Gp1PXYgU0b0 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200719110238/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp1PXYgU0b0 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp1PXYgU0b0|title=Groups of Ten or More People (2020)|work=YouTube|date=10 July 2020 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> This adaptation, set during the early days of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], was filmed entirely over the digital conferencing program [[Zoom (software)|Zoom]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.totaltheater.com/?q=node%2F8591&fbclid=IwAR33-gapB3bez7NAjD6W474z45JkRpecjimDuIbepyokN7hUZ25Rcqc00GQ|title=Groups of Ten or More People|work=Total Theatre}}</ref>
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