2016 – As You Like It

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s most thoughtful comedies. It contrasts the coldness and cruelty of the court of Duke Ferdinand with the world of nature in the Forest of Arden, to which the has banished his brother, the former Duke.
The fugative Duke’s brother, Rosalind, is also exiled from court and with her cousin Celia and the court jester Touchstone, goes to find her father in the forest. There she – and everyone else – finds love and fulfilment.

Among the highlights of the play are the songs, such as Blow, blow, thou winter wind and It was a lover and his lass, and the philosopher Jaques’ musing about the mystery of Time, All the world’s a stage

In August 2016 The Riverside Players visited Rendcomb College in the Cotswolds.