As You Like It

The video includes exercises to show how various interpretations of Shakespeare can be explored through performance; a professional production of the play by Cheek by Jowl; and an examination of the difference between film and theatre.

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Presented by Fiona Shaw, this is an invaluable resource, examining various issues, including how interpretations of Shakespeare can be explored through performance and the difference between film and theatre.
The video includes workshops by Fiona Shaw with student actors; extracts from the all-male Cheek by Jowl production of the play; and interviews with Cheek by Jowl's Declan Donnellan and Adrian Lester and with directors/actors Annie Castledine, Peter Sellars, Juliet Stevenson and Deborah Warner. It ends with a specially shot version of the banishment scene directed by Fiona Shaw, with Susan Lynch and Matilda Ziegler.
Produced by The Open University.
NOT FOR SALE IN NORTH AMERICA.