What The Press Said About "As You Like It"

Featuring dazzling set and costume design and a spectacular ensemble performance led by Olivier Award-winner, Eve Best, Samuel West's magical new production of AS YOU LIKE IT is delighting audiences at the Crucible. Shakespeare's enchanting comedy sees Rosalind banished into the forest with her friend, Celia. Disguised as a boy she comes across her beloved Orlando and challenges him to woo the woman he loves"¦

'A first-class ensemble and dazzling, inventive staging' Metro

'Samuel West's radical revival"¦captures all the dizzying madness of love' Guardian

'A dazzling kaleidoscope of a production' Yorkshire Post

'Eve Best"¦achieves excellence as Rosalind' The Times

'(Designer) Katrina Lindsay has created a masterpiece' Doncaster Advertiser

'Peter Mumford's lighting hits the spot and Howard Goodall's unaccompanied choral settings strike just the right note' Independent

'One of the most delightfully entertaining and heart-warming Shakespeare productions seen at the Crucible for a long time' BBC Online

'Any production stands or falls by its Rosalind and Eve Best's belongs in the highest company' Guardian

'We all know the world's a stage, but few of the world's stages are used in manner as skilful and as memorable as this' Doncaster Advertiser

'Searchingly intelligent' Financial Times

'Eve Best is passion incarnate' Guardian

'A triumph of both style and substance' Yorkshire Post

'A load of old bollocks' Daily Telegraph

'An energy, tension and sexual magic that brings the night to sparkling life' Sheffield Star

'If you fancy being truly stunned by a mighty extravaganza of great visual spectacle, you'll surely not beat Sam West's new production of As You Like It' Doncaster Advertiser

Aged 16 - 26? Young People's Ticket £7.50 (available on all performances excluding Saturday, subject to availability, max. 8 per booking). -- www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk

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Posted February 15th, 2007 by ruzik_tuzik