As You Like It

Synopsis: A videotape recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2003 production of As You Like It. Directed by Gregory Thompson with Nina Sosanya as Rosalind.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2003
Duration: 164 mins

General: `What drove Greg [Gregory Thompson, the director] was the idea of dispossession and exile and it struck us that a good period to set the play would be the 1840s when the Enclosures Act started to hit home. Therefore the production has an early Victorian look to it.' RSC Website. This was Gregory Thompson’s first production for the RSC.
History: First performance 13 March 2003. It played in repertoire until 8 November 2003. The production played from 22 April-18 May at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC and from 25-29 November at the Playhouse, Newcastle upon Tyne
Reviews: Jackson, Russell. Shakespeare Quarterly 55 (2004), pp 177-99 (review article).

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
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Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

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