As You Like It

Warwick Arts Centre (2016)

O, how full of briers is this working day world!’ 

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When forced into exile by the usurping Duke Frederick, Shakespeare’s players revel in their great escape to Arden. Warwick University Drama Society present an emphatic, spine tingling dystopian twist on one of the Bards most celebrated comedies. As You Like It wrestles between an authoritarian court and an unexplored pastoral bliss, but can anyone find the unbridled escape they search for? With a driving original score and a contemporary set and design: come hither come hither come hither.

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"The visual aspects of this production are nigh on stunning; lighting is inventive and stirring, while choreography contributes to a thrillingly oxymoronic chaotic symmetry." Rating: **** by Boar

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