As You Like It

Synopsis: Radio adaptation of As You Like It of William Kinsolving’s production for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Adapted for radio by Robert Knoll and directed by Andrew C. Love with Ann Kinsolving as Rosalind.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 17 Aug 1968 (Channel: NBC)
Duration: 24 mins
Availability: No archive copy found (2007)

General: The cast credits are those taken from the cast of the stage production as cast details for the radio production were not available. It has been assumed that the cast is the same but because the radio version is much shorter some of the roles may have been cut.

Jensen (op cit) notes that Robert Kroll, the adaptor, used the unusual technique of having a narrator introduce a character and then the character speaks a few lines in the actor’s voice. This was done for four characters and the fourth began the play.
History: The stage production ran 22 July-8 September 1968. The radio production was also heard on the Armed Forces Radio Service, Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.
Reviews: Jensen, Michael P. ‘Radio’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (p. 512, entry 2129).

Shakespeare, "As You Like It". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av67378 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)

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