As You Like It ISP week 9

As You Like It

What to expect from Shared experience?

From the clips and reviews I’ve read of Shared Experience’s ‘As You Like It’ I’m expecting a completely unique and ‘never done before’ take on Shakespeare’s work. I’m also expecting them to communicate some type of meaning through their modern and political interpretation to the audience, these meanings could be about gender roles or romance, which are themes in the play itself or possibly something political and current. Shared Experience seem to have chosen bright colours in both their setting and costume, this may have something to do with communicating a message to the audience or it could possibly reflect or contrast with a theme or something in the play.

Physical movement and dance styled sequences seem to occur in the play which adds to the dramatic atmosphere in the production as well as being a way to communicate emotions and events. Shared experience is described as being ‘unpredictable’ and are known to keep up constant high energy throughout their productions which holds audience’s attention well.  Shared experience claim they like to use audience participation in their work so there’s a possibility that this could be apart of As You Like It.

The set design seems to be an interesting aspect of this production. A reviewer described the set to have deer trots around the stage, birds flying overhead and a telephone box filled with books and a water cooler among the trees. I’m not entirely sure if these things relate to the story in any way but I’ll find out for sure when I go to watch the production. It will be interesting to see how well Shared Experience pair Shakespeare’s language along with a modern take on one of his classics as the two greatly contrast.