Ruth Leon recommends… As You Like It – National Theatre at Home

As You Like It – National Theatre at Home

Click here for tickets : subscription

Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change, As You Like It, with Rosalie Craig as Rosalind, Patsy Ferran as Celia and Joe Bannister as Orlando, finally makes it onto the National Theatre’s website and it’s worth waiting for. This production, directed by Polly Findlay and designed by Lizzie Clachan, got five star reviews when it premiered in November 2016, and I’m not sure why it’s taken so long to be made available online.

It’s not As You Like It as you know it. Modern dress, lacking the high jinks of most productions, Findlay turned down the usual light-hearted fun in favour of re-examining every character, even the smallest, and finding humour in unexpected places. Pay special attention to Carolyn Downing’s soundscape, it will take you to a Forest of Arden you’ve never seen or heard before.

Read more