As You Like It: Shakespeare Theatre Company Blends Comedy with Hollywood
Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20004)
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The last date listed for As You Like It was Tuesday December 22, 2009 / 7:30pm.
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Kristi on What to Wear
Nice casual to dressy- all ranges were seen.
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Eat before you go
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Kristi on Where to Park
We took the metro- easiest method of transport, very close.
Goldstar Member Reviews
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Wildly inventive, but the original play gets a bit lost in the shuffle. Is Rosalind really 200 years old by the end? I wouldn't take a youngster to this for her first introduction to Shakespeare. That said, my husband and I know the play well and enjoyed the many jokes and film parodies. The view from the mezzanine is great, but the leg room is limited. Best to take the Metro to Harman Hall.Written on Nov 30 2009
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MattD
Riduculous. Poorly conceived and executed. I left ather the intermission.Written on Nov 30 2009
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Goldstar Member
This is a sure-fire, bound-to-sell-out hit. It's wildly imaginative, fast-paced, wonderfully-musical, and gorgeously designed. You'd have to be as gloomy as Jacques (played by Andrew Long) not to fall in love with this production. The best "As You Like It" ever!Written on Nov 18 2009
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RHPerry
The tickets were great -- front row!Written on Dec 16 2009
Once I figured out that the time and milieu shifts were meaningless I could relax and enjoy the farce. It would have been better had there been a set up for them, like the director coming out and saying she couldn't decide what era and milieu she wanted to set the play in so she used them all.
It starts out in Puritan England, shifts to American Revolutionary War, to antebellum South, to Reconstruction (I did laugh at Andrew Long carrying a carpetbag suitcase), to an oilfield, to mesa-strewn American West, to an oil field, to a couple of well known film stars (I won't spoil it since their appearance is good for a couple of laughs).
I was reminded while watching this that it is perhaps my least favorite of the Bard's comedies, so farcing (is that a word?) it up with gimmicks is not a bad idea, but the execution here was confusing for a good third of the presentation.
The actresses playing the lead and playing Phebe were particularly good. Andrew Long and Floyd King were wasted in lackluster characters. Kinda whetted my appetite for seeing those two in something better.
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More Information About As You Like It
Website
http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/plays/details.aspx?id=181&source=l
Description
In the Forest of Arden, exiles from a tyrannical kingdom search for freedom. And the irrepressible Rosalind, Shakespeare’s most fully realized female character, finds freedom of a different kind as she pursues love in disguise. As You Like It is filled with the elements that make Shakespeare’s comedies so much fun: a wise fool, beautiful poetry, a magical land, young lovers and … wrestling? Maria Aitken will bring her signature directorial style that made her Tony Award winning production of The 39 Steps “the most entertaining show on Broadway.” (The New York Post)
About the Ticket Supplier: Shakespeare Theatre Company
The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., has dedicated itself to becoming the nation's premier classic theatre. By focusing on works with profound themes, complex characters and heightened language written by Shakespeare, his contemporaries and those playwrights he influenced, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's artistic mission is unique among regional theatres: to bring to vibrant life groundbreaking, thought-provoking and eminently accessible classic theatre in a uniquely American style.