Love's Labor's Lost In 60's India

So when it came time to stage a production of the play for the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, Kahn morphed the royals and nobles who ruled the roost in western Europe into “three guys in a band” and Vespa-driving female diplomats with a taste for short skirts.
 
The three friends agree to go into seclusion, forgo women and study with an Indian prince-guru. But they break their vow and fall for the women. It is the same play as Shakespeare’s, just a different setting.

“I don’t believe in changing periods for periods without reason,” Kahn said. “Immediately I could think only of the 1960s and how everyone went to the Maharishi.”