The World's A Stage Players are excited to announce the return of summer Shakespeare to the lawn of the Concord Public Library with their next production, a condensed version of Shakespeare's As You Like It.  

This pastoral tale of lost souls in Shakespeare's fictional Forest of Arden will draw inspiration from the real Ardennes Forest of France and the Lost Generation of men and women who struggled through the displacement of World War I. It is a play about a search for connection, freedom, and identity, that maintains the whimsy, farcical mistaken identity, and word play that make Shakespeare's comedies so fun.

The play follows multiple characters' journeys within the forest. The banished Duke Senior and his followers have set up a new woodland court. The heroine Rosalind flees her uncle's persecution, disguised as a man and accompanied by her cousin Celia. Orlando flees his brother Oliver in search of his birth right. And the court fool, Touchstone, seeks a new identity for herself, free from society's constraints.

The World's A Stage Players can't wait to be back in front of an audience this summer, continuing its tradition of Shakespeare at the Concord Public Library.

(Note that the World's A Stage Players presented a filmed staged reading of
As You Like It in the fall of 2020. Click here to view it, or here to learn more.)