As You Like It (2009)
A firm favourite among Shakespeare’s comedies, and including some of his best loved characters, As You Like It runs the glorious gamut of pastoral romance: cross-dressing and love-notes; poetry and brilliant conversation; gentle satire, slapstick and passion.
'Can one desire too much of a good thing?'
A firm favourite among Shakespeare’s comedies, and including some of his best loved characters, As You Like It runs the glorious gamut of pastoral romance: cross-dressing and love-notes; poetry and brilliant conversation; gentle satire, slapstick and passion.
Synopsis
Rosalind, the daughter of a banished duke, falls in love with Orlando at a wrestling match. Her usurping uncle, jealous of her popularity banishes her from court. Disguised as a boy she leaves with her cousin Celia and the jester Touchstone, to seek out her father in the Forest of Arden. Here she meets Orlando again and, under the guise of a young man, counsels him in the art of love and wooing.
Cast
Michael Benz
SILVIUS
Philip Bird
DUKE SENIOR
Sophie Duval
AUDREY
Naomi Frederick
ROSALIND
Peter Gale
AMIENS / SIR OLIVER MARTEXT
Gregory Gudgeon
LE BEAU / WILLIAM
Brendan Hughes
DUKE FREDERICK
Sean Kearns
CHARLES THE WRESTLER / CORIN
Jack Laskey
ORLANDO
Trevor Martin
ADAM
Tim McMullan
JACQUES
Jamie Parker
OLIVER
Laura Rogers
CELIA
Dominic Rowan
TOUCHSTONE
Ewart James Walters
HYMEN
Jade Williams
PHEBE
Creatives
Thea Sharrock
DIRECTOR
Dick Bird
DESIGNER
Stephen Warbeck
COMPOSER
Fin Walker
CHOREOGRAPHER
Kevin McCurdy
FIGHT DIRECTOR
Rob Millett
MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Kriss Russman
DIRECTED FOR THE SCREEN