As You Like It

Synopsis: Video recording of As You Like It filmed at Free Shakespeare in the Park and directed by Dan Chumley. Stacy Ross is Rosalind.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 1995
Duration: 137 mins

Director

Dan Chumley

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Tim White

Production Design

Charles Neifeld

Costume

Keiko Shimosato

Cast

Production type: Stage Recordings
Plays: As You Like It
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Doubling of roles; Open-air theatre

General: The staging is influenced by classic Jhatra performance styles and the music of India.
Stills: `Charles Neifeld’s cleverly constructed, two-level thrust stage - all set about with bamboo poles and tiny flags - comes complete with an inner stage for quick tableaux and Donyale Werle’s Mogul Empire-style forest and courtyard scene paintings. Costumer Keiko Shimosato ... provides a gorgeous array of robes, turbans, halters, dhotis, towering gilt headdresses and gowns in bright, multilayered colors’ [Robert Hurwitt, SFGate, 17 July 1995].
Textual information: Abridged by Joan Holden.
Reviews: Hurwitt, Robert, SF Gate, July 17, 1995. Hurwitt writes: ` ... it suffers from a conflict between style and content. The Indian performance techniques Chumley employs, which the cast has mastered to widely varying degrees of effectiveness, are principally nonverbal forms, in which gesture substitutes for dialogue’.

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