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As You Like It (2009)
directed by Thea Sharrock
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. 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. Award-winning director Thea Sharrock (Equus, The Emperor Jones) will be directing at the Globe for the first time and on her first ever Shakespeare production. This production will evoke traditional staging and costume.
Creative Team
Director: Thea Sharrock
Designer: Dick Bird
Composer: Stephen Warbeck
Choreographer: Fin Walker
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
Discover the play
Discover actors' experiences whilst making the production in Adopt An Actor:
Laura Rogers as Celia
Naomi Frederick as Rosalind
Philip Bird as Duke Senior
Tim McMullan as Jaques
Discover previous performances of As You Like It on the Globe's main stage:
1998 main stage production of As You Like It
Just Opinions
"deliver, like free and honest men, our just opinions"
Henry VIII, 3.1.63-64
Have you seen this season's production? Post your thoughts on the 2009 As You Like It below:
Comments
I studied Shakespeare at
I studied Shakespeare at high school (liceo in Italy) and never liked it :-) I suppose at that time I was too much into scientific studies.
Now I am 39 and I saw "As you like it" last 1st Aug. Well I loved it and I am afraid I fell in love with Naomi Frederick :-D
Thanks for the wonderful night.
Saw this with my daughters
Saw this with my daughters on Monday evening and we all loved it. We bought tickets to be groundlings and the play was so good that we didn't notice that our feet hurt until much later!
What a wonderful wonderful
What a wonderful wonderful evening I spent watching this play.
Totally fell in love with the Globe and Laura Rogers !
I'm sure I'll see at least one of them again !
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