As You Like It

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1996 production of As You Like It. Directed by Stephen Pimlott with Niamh Cusack as Rosalind and Liam Cunningham as Orlando.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 17 May 1996
Duration: 172 mins

Notes: A recording was also made at the Barbican theatre 8 November 1996.
General: The production combined minimalist staging with Elizabethan costumes.
History: Press night 25 April 1996
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: Smallwood, Robert As You Like It (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2003). [Discusses post-World War II RSC productions of As You Like It focusing on staging the court, the Forest of Arden, the relationship of Celia and Rosalind (especially her cross-dressing), Jacques, Touchstone and the final revelries].

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

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