As You Like It was performed from April 7 to May 6, 2006.
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare Directed by Karen Fort
Featuring:
Rosalind / Ganymede........Amanda Louise Paules
Orlando....................................Bradford Stevens
Celia / Aliena...............................Carolyn Wright
Jaques, the melancholy...................Lee Peters
Touchstone.....................................Nathan Craig
Silvius...............................................Eric Brown
Phoebe............................................LJ Hischier
Audrey..........................................Jessica Garrett
Duke Senior..................................Peter Esposito
Duke Frederick.............................Charles Mueller
Amiens.............................................Steve Figg
Oliver..........................................Patrick McAndrew
Le Beau.........................................Brian Golden
Charles, the wrestler.......................Abe Peterka
Corin..............................................David Albright
Sir Oliver Mar-Text........................Charles Mueller
Jacques, 2nd son of deBoys.............John Hornik
Adam..............................................Bob Weagant
Hisperia..........................................Elise Newman
Ensemble: Johanna Drew, Anna Christensen, Joanne Worthy
Many actors play more than one role in this production.
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
Click the triangle below to play “Ganymede’s Theme”
(aka A Short Thank-You to Rachel, by Tom Fort).
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.