The Living Willow Community Company presented their third production on Saturday May 23 at 7.30pm and Sunday May 24 at 4pm at the Living Willow Theatre, generously sponsored by Gwanwyn – Celebrating Creativity in Older Age. As You Like It is the sunniest of Shakespeare’s comedies with love, laughter and music that warmed the audience’s hearts and dazzled their spirits.
Once again, the local cast spanned several generations and included many favourite actors from The Merchant of Venice and Macbeth playing an amazing variety of characters. The willow setting enhanced the play’s dreamlike qualities of love, enchantment and eloquence and emphasised the spiritual link to the land. Music threaded through the action, as in no other of the bard’s plays, and Benjie Talbot created a sound score while the songs evolved from the players and singers themselves with the expert help of arrangements from Sue Harris.
As You Like It left viewers uplifted, enchanted and truly believing that there is “good in every thing”, as proved by the comment from one audience member who said the performance left her “feeling younger.”
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