As You Like It
This bright and comic tale is famed as the only play written by Shakespeare in which he is known to have appeared himself - playing Adam, the old retainer to the hero Orlando. The sunniest of his comedies, the play tells of a group of courtiers escaping to the Forest of Arden where they meet, philosophise and fall in love.
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Cast
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Rosalind (voice)
Maria Miles
Celia / Audrey (voice)
John McAndrew
Orlando (voice)
Peter Gunn
Touchstone / Messenger (voice)
David Holt
Silvius / Hymen (voice)
Nathaniel Parker
Jacques / Oliver (voice)
Stefan Bednarczyk
Amiens / Lord (voice)
Christopher Benjamin
Duke Frederick / Corin (voice)
Garard Green
Duke Senior / Adam (voice)
Eiry Thomas
Phoebe (voice)
David Burke
Narrator (voice)
Overview
This bright and comic tale is famed as the only play written by Shakespeare in which he is known to have appeared himself - playing Adam, the old retainer to the hero Orlando. The sunniest of his comedies, the play tells of a group of courtiers escaping to the Forest of Arden where they meet, philosophise and fall in love.