As You Like It

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2000 production of As You Like It. Directed by Gregory Doran with Alexandra Gilbreath as Rosalind and Nancy Carroll as Celia.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 5 Oct 2000
Duration: 164 mins

Notes: A 40-minute post-performance discussion with Ian Hogg, Adrian Schiller, Alexandra Gilbreath and Nancy Carroll was recorded at The Pit (26 January 2001) and may be listened to by appointment at the British Library Sound Archive. The BLSA also made a sound recording of the performance.
General: `Never is the theatre at greater risk than when it hopes to import a touch of glamour by co-opting a couturier [Kaffe Fassett]... once we’re in the forest there isn’t (apart from Jaques) a courtier or peasant without some multi-coloured textile twined about his person, to say nothing of a veritable catalogue of monster cushions and carpet-bags - a sort of Arden-for-sale promotion at Liberty’s. Patrick Carnegy The Spectator (1 April 2000).
History: Press night 23 March 2000
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: Liston, William T. Shakespeare Bulletin 19, no. 1(2000) p24-5.

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

British Universities Film & Video Council