As You Like It

Synopsis: A video recording of Tim Albery’s 1989 Old Vic production of As You Like It with Fiona Shaw as Rosalind and Adam Kotz as Orlando.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 26 Jun 1989

Director

Tim Albery

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Orlando Gough

Production Design

Antony McDonald

Cast

History: Staged at the Old Vic, London 23 May-8 July 1989.
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’. `

`The set by Anthony McDonald emphasises this atmosphere of an effete, precious world: the Forest, with its symbolic fir trees and a stuffed stag, resembles in the first Act a Christmas window display at Selfridge’s. In the second Act it is arbitrarily converted into an avant garde demonstration of abstract-expressionism graffiti." Milton Shulman, Evening Standard 24 May 1989
Reviews: Berkowitz, Gerald M. Shakespeare Bulletin 7, no. 5 (1989): 7-9 (in review-article).

SHAKESPEARE