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As You Like It

 

Production Sponsors   Barbara and Richard Franke         Poetry Foundation, Bulley & Andrews

 

WELCOMING YOU BACK TO THE THEATER IN OCTOBER

 

In-person performances return in October 2021 with As You Like It. Ticket holders, we’re already holding your place—there are no additional steps to take at this time. Once the performance schedule is set, we will contact you to arrange a new date that’s convenient for you. 


It’s the 1960s, when all you need is love. Free spirits escape a world gone wrong to get back to the land, a place that promises safe harbor from the corrupt ways of the city—but no one is spared here from the hazards of love. The irrepressible Rosalind takes refuge in the forest. So, too, does her love Orlando, with much to learn from the woman of his dreams, now disguised in boy’s garb. This high-spirited, music-filled adaptation infuses Shakespeare’s comedy with the hit songs of The Beatles—lifting the playwright’s timeless verse in beautiful harmony with the immortal music of the "Fab Four." First staged at Vancouver's Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, As You Like It is adapted and directed by Daryl Cloran, Artistic Director of Canada’s acclaimed Citadel Theatre.

 

WATCH & LISTEN

 

Video: In Conversation with Director Daryl Cloran

Playlist: "All You Need is Love"

 

More to Explore

Curious how the Bard and The Beatles "Come Together"?

Can you match Shakespeare's As You Like It characters to The Beatles song they sing?
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About the Director

Daryl Cloran is Artistic Director at Canada's acclaimed Citadel Theatre, and has a great interest in theatrical experimentation to bring in non-traditional audiences.
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Strawberry Fields Forever!

An examination of the intersections between Shakespeare, the Pastoral, and The Beatles.
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by William Shakespeare
adapted & directed by Daryl Cloran
conceived by Daryl Cloran and the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival
in association with the Citadel Theatre and Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre


ADDITIONAL SPONSORS

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust

The Mary and Nick Babson Fund to Support Chicago Actors

The Reid-Anderson Family Fund


MEDIA SPONSOR
WTTW-WFMT
 

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