Shakespeare BASH'd Puts Love And Music At The Centre Of Its 1960's Inspired AS YOU LIKE IT

Shakespeare BASH'd, NOW Best Site-Specific Theatre Company 2018 and favourite of Toronto theatre audiences, hot off the sold-out success ofOthello, returns to Junction City Music Hall for a 1960's inspired staging of Shakespeare's comedy of joy, wit, and transformation: As You Like It.

The lyrical, pastoral comedy brings to life the transformative Forest of Arden and the devoted female friendship between cousins Rosalind and Celia, who leave the repressive confines of court life behind and run away to the free-love, progressive, folk-rock embrace of the Forest.

Director Drew O'Hara, regular on the BASH'd stage, sets this production against the backdrop of the early 1960's and the birth of second-wave feminism. "It's really a play about self-discovery, with Shakespeare's largest female role at the centre of it," says O'Hara. One of Shakespeare's most musical texts, O'Hara has enlisted the writing talents of local actor-musicians Kaleb Horn and Hilary Adams. As You Like It will feature an all original score composed to Shakespeare's lyrics.

As Rosalind, Shakespeare BASH'd has cast the incomparable Hallie Seline, previously loved by BASH'd audiences and by the larger Toronto theatre community in The Howland Company's critically-acclaimed Punk Rock, 52 Pickup, and The Wolves. She leads an ensemble cast that features many Shakespeare BASH'd favourites as well as exciting new additions of the city's best emerging actors. Shakespeare BASH'd audience favourite Lesley Robertson will play Touchstone, the (traditionally male) clown. Jade Douris (Richard III, Twelfth Night for BASH'd, Shakespeare by the Sea) takes on Rosalind's confidante, Celia. New to the BASH'd team is Justin Mullen as the lovesick Orlando, who will take the stage with Olivia Croft (Measure for Measure for BASH'd) as the melancholy Jacques, and Daniel Briere (Hamlet, Twelfth Night for BASH'd, Stratford Festival) playing both Duke Senior and his hated brother, Frederick.

Tickets will fly for this limited run of one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, presented by one of Toronto's most loved indie companies.

Showtimes:

Tuesday, April 23 - 7pm

Wednesday, April 24 - 7pm

Thursday, April 25 - 7pm

Friday, April 26 - 7pm

Saturday, April 27 - 2pm

Saturday, April 27 - 7pm

Sunday, April 28 - 2pm

Tickets:

$20 online at www.shakespearebashd.com

$25 at the door

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