AS YOU LIKE IT @Harmony Centre
Event description
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. It's the story of love, forgiveness, and the power of nature to transform our lives. The play follows a group of characters who flee a corrupt court and find refuge in the outback of Arden. Where they learn to live in harmony with nature and discover new truths about themselves and each other.
Befitting Such Stuff’s vital and contemporary approach to Shakespeare, our As You Like It opens today, in a corporate kingdom ripe with greed and jealousy and deceit. Then banishment sends our characters, not to rustic Arden Forest, but to Australia’s outback.
Our production explores the hidden dangers and delights of love in Shakespeare’s story - so the characters encounter love’s extremes and they’ll struggle to keep their feet on rough ground.
But will they also discover true "liberty and not banishment" in their lives and in love?
"...the actors fully lived their character, went inside the written word...I fell in love with Orlando's energy, thought Rosalind a perfect magnet, and the lioness ought to have eaten Oliver...wizardry from Shakespeare's pen...all looked like they were really living through it all while I was just being absorbed by them."
- From Carol Cherry's Review, Feb 2024
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