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As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Karintha Touton
Assistant Directed by Jeremy Speed Schwartz
Produced by Ron "Adam" Dunberger
Jul 9 to Aug 14, 2010
Fri & Sat 8 PM & Sun 2 PM
Westchester Playhouse 8301 Hindry Ave., Westchester, CA 90045
$18 general admission, $2 discount for seniors, students & servicemen

Calling all lovers, all travelers and fools. Trying to find meaning in the madness? Overwhelmed by the clutter and stress of modern life? Banished by a usurping duke? Kentwood Players invites you to run away with us to The Forest of Arden. “As You Like It” gives us only what we like: sibling rivalry, mistaken identities, cross dressing, an eight way wedding… while bringing us some of Shakespeare’s best written characters.

Duke Senior is banished from the city by his usurping brother. As he happily takes up residence in the Forest of Arden, Rosalind (his daughter) stays behind in the oppressive court of the new Duke. While in the city she briefly meets and falls in love with Orlando. Unfortunately, before the lovers have a chance to get to know each other, the new Duke banishes Rosalind. Off she goes, disguised as a boy, to the Forest of Arden. Along with her go her cousin Celia, Touchstone the clown, and a thoughtful optimism which allows her to see a joyful duality in everything.

The forest presents us with a strange pageant of accidental meetings and comical pairings. Within the forest we meet the famous Jaques, a melancholy wit well known for recounting that “All the World’s a Stage.” This is a suitable quip, for the forest becomes a space where each character can play out their fantasies and create their own identities.

The city, here envisioned by Karintha Touton and Jeremy Speed Schwartz, is an over-industrialized, media saturated setting. As the characters escape to Arden, they begin to transform. So too does the scenery, shifting into a fanciful space where business suits, bows and arrows, palm trees, and lionesses exist side by side. The media transforms along with the environment, going from a mass media culture to one of live music and poetry hung on trees. The songs, composed by local Indy artist Ben Jaffe, are a blend of modern folk and rock which call to the simple pleasures of the country life but with a distinctive contemporary sound.

Director Karintha Touton believes that “Theater is our Forest of Arden. We all have to exist in the clutter and stress of this modern world, but Kentwood is a place we can escape to for a time, where anything can happen, and where we can play out the better parts of ourselves. There couldn’t be a better time to bring 'As You Like It' to a modern audience. Don’t miss it!”

CAST
Lorenzo Bastien................................................Orlando
Scot Renfro.........................................................Adam
Mark Mayes............................................Oliver/Martext
Marco Antonio Garcia.........................................Charles
Meredith M. Sweeney.......................................Rosalind
Alison Stebbins.....................................................Celia
Melodie S. Rivers.............................................Hesperia
Drew Fitzsimmons.......................................Touchstone
Rick Gates .........................Duke Frederick/Duke Senior
Martin Feldman.................................................Amiens
Catherine Rahm....................................................Corin
David Neiman.....................................................Silvius
Susie McCarthy..................................................Jaques
Lauren Billingsley..............................................Audrey
Caity Engler........................................................Phebe
Jordan Bland.........................................William/Hymen
 
CAST PICTURES
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Photos by Ron "Adam" Dunberger.

 
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