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UPEI Theatre Society: As Everyone Likes It

The UPEI Theatre Society held three nights of their major year-end pro- duction, William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It.

And there was a lot to like.

Set in the 1 te —o included the whole gj play —all three hours | of it — along with songs of the hippy / period (instead of the © Elizabethan). All characters, the dukes to the lords, were donned in retro cos- tumes, which makes sense when you con- sider how hard it would have been to ‘ find Elizabethan peri- 7 od costumes for the | two dozen or so actors. Though it was | a little disconcerting to have people spout- ing Shakespeare prose while dressed in Afros and flowing 1960s gowns, it was not something that changed the flavour of the production con- siderably.

While the people were dressed as though they stepped out of 1969, the set at the Carrefour Theatre was a beautiful for-

est, often highlighted with green lights, that was both pleasant to look at, but not so distracting that it was hard to focus on the players.

For those not in the Shakespeare- know, the show follows the love story of Orlando (Matt Stewart) and his amour,

Rosalind (Sharon Eyster). Both end up in

the forest of Arden. Orlando is outrunning his brother, Oliver, who tried to have him killed in a wrestling match (wrestler was Danny Maloney). Rosalind is joined by cousin Celia (Melissa Vloet) and Orlando

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is joined by an old man named Adam (Alex Field). To complicate matters, Rosalind is banished from the court by Duke Frederick (Corin MacFadden) and to keep herself from getting caught, she dresses as a man.

Though they could live happily in

the forest ee he hippies who sing and

picnic) with a woman dresses as a man, you know things aren't going to go smoothly. In the | forest, a shepherdess » named Phoebe (Mary Clements)

| falls in love with

_ Ganymede, a.k.a.

| Rosalind. To com- plicate matters, the shepherd Silvius (Adam Gauthier) loves Phoebe.

Of course, as it is a comedy, there is a happy ending.

Duke Senior, played by Lennie MacPherson, who was banished, gets his happy ending, along with the loving couples, including the clown Touchstone (Joey Weale) and his country wench, Audrey (Jennifer Jackson).

All aspects of the production came off smoothly: the singing was clear and beautiful, thanks to Christa Rehberg, Derrick Vokey and Carrie MacLellan. Even without the help of microphones, the voices carried through the theatre. As said earlier, the stage was beautiful, with enough props to create interest, but not overpower the acting. While much of the acting focussed on the dramatic as opposed to the slapstick comedy that could occur with a play, there were laughs to be had, especially when the country wench (Jackson) couldn't allow her country-self to adopt a proper sitting position. The makeup came off flawlessly: Field, who was supposed to be an old man, actually looked old.

I wasn't the only person to give the production a good review: even on the first night of the weekend, the 80-member audience gave the players a standing ova- tion.