As You Like It
After fleeing home to escape political persecution, Rosalind finds herself hiding in the countryside among a boisterous cast of characters, making unexpected acquaintances and experiencing the restorative power of love along the way.
In As You Like It, as in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, we spend most of the play in the forest. But here we have not a distant, magical, moonlight wood peopled by faeries. This forest is a daylight and familiar place, very like the real forest of Arden hard by my home, Stratford-upon-Avon.
After fleeing home to escape political persecution, Rosalind finds herself hiding in the countryside among a boisterous cast of characters, making unexpected acquaintances and experiencing the restorative power of love along the way.