Actors Keegan Flick-Parker, Sofie Newman and Emily Snee tell us about their upcoming outdoor production of
Presented by: Carousel Theatre’s Teen Shakespeare Program
Free Play!
Head instructor Jack Paterson re-envisions Shakespeare’s romantic comedy in the 1950s – from Elizabethan court life to McCarthy-era society. Rosalind and Celia translate into all-American girls in poodle-skirts and bobby socks; the Forest of Arden becomes a den of beatniks and bohemians.
Shakespeare’s As You Like It establishes the boundary between courtly esteem and banishment – just as 1950s America stressed the divide between the patriotic mainstream and the rebels without a cause. Carmen Allatore’s bold design concept uses cinematic and cultural icons – James Dean, Elvis Presley, Joseph McCarthy, Jack Kerouac – as a visual shorthand to bring all the political and social tumult of the 50s immediately to mind within Shakespeare’s timeless story arc.
No matter when or where, one thing is certain –
“Love is merely a madness”
August 1 – 16, 2008. The show runs Monday to Saturday from August 1 to 16 at 7:30 PM
with matinees August 2, 4, 9, and 16 at 2:00 PM. Previews August 1 at 7:30 PM and
August 2 at 2:00 PM
Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright Street, on Granville Island
The show is FREE General Seating. Call the box office for more info at 604.685.6217
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