As You Like It

by William Shakespeare     Directed by Karen Fort

Stage Manager: Kate Harrington.  Lighting Design: Maggie Fullilove-Nugent.  Sound Design: Keith Fort.  Scenic Design: Karen Fort.  Fight Director: Abe Peterka.  Asst Director: Duane Davy.  Scenic consultant: Jeff Bauer.  Asst Stage Manager: John Hornik.  Costume Stitcher: Kathleen Cowell.  Wardrobe Mistress: Joanne Worthy.  Set Carpenter: Joel Gross.  Publicity: Judy Molloy.  Tech Assistant: Reni Soto. Musicians: Keith Fort, Tom Fort, Charles Mueller, Elise Newman.  Production asst. & scenic painter, Steven Simms.  Asst lighting designer: Joe Giovannetti 

Amanda Louise Paules as Ganymede, Bradford Stevens as Orlando.

Duke Senior (Peter Esposito), Jaques (Lee Peters), Orlando (Bradford Stevens), Amiens (Steve Figg) with the exiles in the Forest of Arden.

Duke Senior

Thou see'st, we are not all alone unhappy:

This wide and universal Theater

Presents more woeful Pageants then the Scene

Wherein we play in.

Jaques

                                   All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women, merely Players;

They have their Exits and their Entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His Acts being seven ages. At first the Infant,

Mewling, and puking in the Nurses arms:

Then, the whining School-boy with his Satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school. And then the Lover,

Sighing like Furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his Mistress eye-brow. Then, a Soldier,

Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the Pard,

Jealous in honor, sudden, and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble Reputation

Even in the Canons mouth: And then, the Justice

In fair round belly, with good Capon lined,

With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws, and modern instances,

And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slippered Pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side,

His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide,

For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble pipes,

And whistles in his sound. Last Scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness, and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.

Amanda as Rosalind.

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