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As You Like It
Directed by Tim Supple
Commissioned by Leicester's £60m new theatre, The Curve, this production of As You Like It searches for another England - and another Shakespeare. The intention remains the same as any other serious attempt to unlock the mysteries of this most familiar yet most elusive of dramatists: to hunt out the play's meaning and share our findings. But we combine this with another intention: to see and hear Shakespeare in different forms and voices.
Different than we are used to and different from each other. Not homogenous but disparate and telling of many journeys - some arduous and full of sorrow, some shot through with joy. This, too, is England and seems pertinent to a play that is, in part, about exile, flight and a transformative, liberating, gathering of strangers and 'aliens'. Directed by Tim Supple, this is his first production made in the UK in over three years.
"The production explicitly offers another way of looking at ourselves as a nation and at our national playwright." The Guardian
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