On Wednesday, August 7th, beginning at 9PM, in the venue Between Churches, the William Shakespeare’s play As You Like It will be performed. It is the production of the York International Shakespeare Festival and is to be presented to the audience in English.
The International Shakespeare Festival in York was founded in 2014. It strives to make the part of its repertoire the local adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, as well as the international ones. As is highlighted by the festival: “Our goal is to bring to York the various productions of Shakespeare’s works from all around the world, and that including the more radical approaches to his plays. These productions serve as windows into the intricacies of other cultures, with that making it possible for us to understand them more clearly. Shakespeare is a kind of universal language and a sort of a mirror reflecting the nature’s peculiarities. The participations of international artists at the festival and their authentic readings of plays we think we know well, allow us to see a display of different ways of thinking and attitudes in the contemporary world. During the last couple of years, the International Shakespeare Festival hosted different adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays that involved the topics of: race and racism in Poland, feminism in Romania, the different experiences of young people in Spain and the topic of colonization in Honduras.”
Music for the play: Nick Jones and Philip Parr.
Cast: Tom Morris, Adam Perrott, Jacob Ward, Thomas Jennings, Beatrice Bowden, Livy Potter, Katie Coen, Sonia Di Lorenzo, Nick Jones, Skylar Mabry.
The “Theatre-City” Press-Office