AS YOU LIKE IT   by William Shakespeare

at Trinity College Gardens, off Parks Road, Oxford

Tuesday 15^th to Saturday 26^th July 2008 (No Sunday performance)

As You Like It is not perhaps so well known as some of Shakespeare's works, yet it includes some of his most memorable poetry and songs. Jacques' recounting of the seven ages of man (All the world's a stage…) and the banished Duke's rumination on life in its natural state (Sweet are the uses of adversity…) are just two that spring to mind.

With banished Dukes, cross-dressing female lead, bawdy wenches, a motley fool and a dubious clergyman, all the ingredients are there for classic Shakespeare comedy.

The bucolic setting of the play sits harmoniously in an Oxford college garden to make for an evening of warm entertainment and dry wit – so it can't possibly be another cold, wet summer.

Director Joe Kenneway