As You Like It
- Synopsis
- A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1985 production of As You Like It. Directed by Adrian Noble with Fiona Shaw as Celia and Juliet Stevenson as Rosalind. Alan Rickman is Jaques.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 12 Nov 1985
- Duration
- 177 mins
Credits
- Director
- Adrian Noble
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Howard Blake
- Production Design
- Bob Crowley
- Cast
Additional Details
- Theatre
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre
- Theatre company
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Historical period
- 1980s
- Plays
- As You Like It
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- General
- `As You Like It is done mostly in modern dress on a stage bare save for a glass-less mirror, a green longcase clock and endless swathes of diaphanous white fabric, which, when not covering the landscape like snow, swells up into a tent or a palaquin. The exiled Duke and his forest companions wear white tie and tails. Touchstone sports an umbrella, and Audrey looks like a comic punk. But these Chagall-like visuals are used for lightning quick changes from forest to court." John Barber, Daily Telegraph (24 April 1985).
- History
- Press night 23 April 1985
- Stills
- Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
- Reviews
- Shaw, Fiona & Stevenson, Juliet ‘Rosalind and Celia in As You Like It’ in Jackson, Russell & Smallwood, Robert (eds). Players of Shakespeare 2: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp 55-71.
[Fiona Shaw and Juliet Stevenson, who played Celia and Rosalind respectively in Adrian Noble’s production, discusses their preparation for and conception of the roles, especially the importance of the friendship between the two characters and the dominant presence of fathers and absence of mothers.]
Production Company
- Name
Royal Shakespeare Company
- Web
- https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
- Address
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB
Archive
- Name
Shakespeare Birthplace Collections
- collections@shakespeare.org.uk
- Web
- https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/collections/ External site opens in new window
- Address
- Shakespeare Centre
Henley Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
CV37 6QW
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "As You Like It". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av38137 (Accessed 03 Oct 2024)