As You Like It

Summary

1953 BBC production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It.

Theatre play

As You Like It by William Shakespeare [more information]

Play synopsis

When Rosalind and Orlando are banished from the oppressive court, they are forced to run for their lives into the wild depths of the Forest of Arden. However, in that harsh, lyrical wilderness, they discover an unexpected freedom and, as their anarchic love story unfolds, Arden bursts into summer.

Production history

Written in 1599 or early 1600.

Date of transmission

Sunday 15 March 1953

Time

8.40-10.40pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Campbell Logan

Playwright

William Shakespeare

Cast

Pamela Alan	Phoebe
Malcolm Black	unnamed part
Michael Brennan	Charles
Frederick Buckland	Second Lord
Kenneth Connor	Touchstone
Isabel Dean	Celia
Max Denne	unnamed part
John Ford	unnamed part
Laurence Harvey	Orlando
Stanford Holme	Le Beau; William
Vida Hope	Audrey
Michael Hordern	Jaques
Walter Hudd	Duke
Alan Johns	unnamed part
Keith Kennedy	unnamed part
Stuart Latham	Sir Oliver Martext
Graham Leaman	First Lord
Margaret Leighton	Rosalind
Philip Lewtas	unnamed part
Roderick Lovell	Oliver
Eliot Makeham	Corin
Michael Malnick	Dennis
Michael Ormond	unnamed part
Henry Oscar (1891-1969)	Frederick
Christopher Quest	First Lord
Alec Roebuck	unnamed part
John Schlesinger	Amiens
Horace Sequeira	Adam
Graham Stuart	Second Lord
Christopher Taylor	unnamed part
Guy Verney	Jaques
Dale Williams	unnamed part
Peter Wyngarde	Sylvius

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Presented again at 7.30pm on Thursday 19 February 1953.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Print sources

Title

As You Like It (Website: database)

Author/creator

BUFVC

Reference

http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av36650

Title

Radio Times, 13 March 1953 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, p. 5; illustrated listing, p. 14