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AS YOU LIKE IT ……

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Northern Broadsides 30th anniversary production features a multi-cultural, gender diverse cast in Shakespeare’s As You Like It at York Theatre Royal from 23-26 March.This flamboyant and joyous ‘play for our times’ is the first full production for the company since the beginning of the pandemic.

This bold, refreshing staging of As You Like It challenges us to imagine a new future. Capturing the sheer joy of live performance and the crazy power of love to change the world, this interpretation emboldens the timeless themes of love, gender, identity and power in Shakespeare’s original. A visual spectacle, the high value production will be radiantly brought to life with an original set and high fashion costumes by E.M. Parry.

Set in a stylish but stifling court, where the Duke is all powerful and brute strength is championed over basic human decency, the high-spirited Rosalind and devoted cousin Celia are no longer welcome. When they escape into the forest in disguise, they bump into the recent object of Rosalind’s affection, Orlando, leading to an elaborate game of fluid identity where all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.

As the seasons change in this magical place, normal roles dissolve and assumptions are turned on their head in this celebration of the transformative power of love and the natural world, featuring some of Shakespeare’s most vivid characters and memorable poetry.

A Northern Broadsides and New Vic Theatre co-production  As You Like It is also at Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough 15-19 March (Box Office 01723 370541 or visit www sjt.uk.com) then at  York Theatre Royal 23-26 March Box office 01904 623568 | yorktheatreroyal.co.uk

Picture by Andrew Billington

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