The Spectator, August 27th, 2005
As You Like It Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon The beguiling charm of Rosalind and her love-games as 'Ganymede' with the earthy Orlando, the melancholy of Jaques with his litany of man's Seven Ages . . . it's all so familiar, so unfailing in its appeal.
And yet, and yet so hard to get right on the stage. Dominic Cooke's new production is one of which Stratford can at last be proud. It takes over in the big theatre from the RSC's previous effort (2000), designed by Kaffe Fassett, beneath whose coat of many colours the play stood lost and trembling in a threadbare shift. A furthe...
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