British Black and Asian Shakespeare Performance Database
As You Like It (2008): Watford Palace Theatre
CAST INCLUDED: Paul Brightwell (Jaques); Anil Desai (Touchstone); Lisa Jackson (Rosalind); Kelly Williams (Celia); Paul Woodsom (Orlando).
This production ran from 7 - 26 April 2008. Production information taken from Theatre Record; may be incomplete.
"There are a handful of decent performances struggling to assert themselves, but the play is hobbled by Larmour's decision to place the action within a Victorian music-hall mise-en-scene. Inspired perhaps by Jaques's 'All the world's a stage' speech, the Forest of Arden is big on red swag curtains and woefully light on foliage. Looking stranded and uncomfortable, the actors waver awkwardly between affected melodrama and attitudes more contemporary. A disappointment." ~ Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph, 14 April 2008
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