As You Like It
- Synopsis
- Low-budget, feature-length version of the play in a modern urban London setting. According to The Guardian (2019), director Christine Edzard makes it into a ‘thinly veiled commentary on the inequalities of post-Thatcherite Britain’.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 1992
- Duration
- 1114 mins
Credits
- Director
- Christine Edzard
- Producer
- Celia Bannerman; George Reinhart; Oliver Stockman
- Cinematographer
- Robin Vidgeon
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Michel Sanvoison
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Historical period
- 1990s
- Plays
- As You Like It
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Estimated budget $1.5m
The Birmingham Shakespeare Library holds a continuity script. - History
- .The film did not get a theatrical release in the US.
- Figures
- Less than £30,000 at the UK box office.
- Reviews
- Abbate, Alessandra ‘There is no such thing as... ‘a Forest’: Criticism of Thatcherite Britain in Christine Edzard’s AS YOU LIKE IT’ , Shakespeare Bulletin 23, no.4 (2005), pp. 33-45. The article argues that the film is weakened by a happy ending ‘that works for the preservation of conservative policies and the socio-economic status quo’.
Production Company
- Name
Grices Wharf
- Phone
- 071-231 2209
- Fax
- 071-231 2119
- Address
- 119 Rotherhithe Street
LONDON
SE16 4NF - Notes
- contact: Ianthe Kazuka
- Name
Sands Films
- info@sandsfilms.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.sandsfilms.co.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7231 2209
- Fax
- 020 7231 2119
- Address
- Squirrel Films Distribution
119 Rotherhithe Street
London
SE16 4NF
Distributor (Sale)
- Name
Buena Vista Home Video
- Address
- Middlesex
TW7 5QD
- Name
Retail outlets
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "As You Like It". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/1255 (Accessed 19 Sep 2024)