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As You
Like It

By William Shakespeare Director Eamon Flack

  • Venue Upstairs Theatre
  • Dates 19 Nov – 24 Dec 2011

    The Forest of Arden: Orlando loves Rosalind. Rosalind is disguised as a boy called Ganymede. Phebe loves Ganymede. Silvius loves Phebe. Rosalind loves Orlando back. Oliver is hunting Orlando. Celia loves Oliver. Celia is disguised as Aliena. The Duke is hunting Celia. The other Duke is hunting deer. Jaques loves the deer. Touchstone is freaked out by Jaques. Audrey loves Touchstone. Touchstone loves words … It turns out to be quite a hard play to describe. In the end there’s a wedding and they all go home.

    As You Like It is breadth of life as only Shakespeare knows how. This is the tale of a mixed bag of ordinary human beings on a tremendous voyage of discovery. At its heart is a heroically foolhardy attempt to begin society all over again, which makes this a perfect end to the first year of the new Belvoir.

    Eamon Flack’s triumphantly ridiculous A Midsummer Night’s Dream played in the Downstairs Theatre in 2009. He is assembling a company of Australia’s brightest, shiniest and funniest for an adventure into the realms of this magnificent comedy about the great graceful drift of life.

    Team

    By William Shakespeare
    Director Eamon Flack
    Set Designer Alistair Watts
    Costume Designer Mel Page
    Lighting Designer Damien Cooper
    Composer & Sound Designer Stefan Gregory
    Assistant Director Frank Mainoo
    Stage Manager Chris Baglot
    Assistant Stage Manager Mel Dyer

    Cast

    Alison Bell
    Bille Brown
    Gareth Davies
    Casey Donovan
    Charlie Garber
    Trevor Jamieson
    Shelly Lauman
    Hamish Michael
    Yael Stone
    Ashley Zukerman

    Production images by Heidrun Lohr
    Rehearsal images by Heidrun Lohr

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