As You Like It
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 26, 2010
Closed Mar 13, 2010
Opened Jan 26, 2010
Closed Mar 13, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Following a critically acclaimed inaugural year, theater and Academy Award-winning film director Sam Mendes will again direct a transatlantic company of actors for the second season of The Bridge Project, a unique three-year series of co-productions by BAM, The Old Vic, and Neal Street Productions devoted to producing large-scale, classical theater for international audiences. Running in Repertory with The Tempest is Shakespeare's pastoral comedy, As You Like It.
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Even if this play wasnt the excellent production it is, it would be worth seeing it for Juliet Rylances performance.
Reviewed by katekoch
on Tuesday, Jan 26th, 2010
RE:Visually spectacular, emotionally riveting
This is not just the best piece of the bard Ive seen in a long time - its simply one of the outstanding pieces on the New York stage at the moment. While the acting is very good, its Sam Mendess vision with sterling support from the production team that is the true star of this production.
Reviewed by neelsen
on Thursday, Jan 21st, 2010
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Having an actress who can convincingly play a young man is just one of the hurdles that directors and theatergoers face in Shakespeare's As You Like It, and in Sam Mendes' solid staging of the comedy that's playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre, Juliet Rylance beautifully fits the bill.
Before her character, Rosalind, transforms herself into a boy, Rylance looks ravishing (in an elegant contemporary evening gown from costume designer Catherine Zuber) and radiates warm femininity. After she's been banished by her uncle Duke Frederick (Michael Thomas) and travels to the Forest of Arden, Rosalind dresses as a young man, where she schools her beloved Orlando (a dashing, b[...]