House to Tour Transport's AS YOU LIKE IT, Sept 27-Nov 22

From 27 September to 22 November 2013, Transport, the critically acclaimed Folkstone-based theatre company behind Invisible, 1001 Nights, Elegy and Europe will present an innovative and visceral new production of Shakespeare's age-old romantic comedy across the South East of England, Eastern England and internationally. The tour will open in Luxembourg on 27 September and finish on 22 November in London. For a full list of tour dates, see below!

A vibrant, touching, and timely story about love and statelessness, As You Like It examines human capacity to endure. Rosalind, the daughter of an exiled leader, falls in love with Orlando. Separately the two are banished from their homeland by Rosalind's dictator uncle. In the wild depths of the forest they find unexpected freedom and are reunited with friends and family.

Casting includes: Fisayo Akinade, Ritu Arya, Colin Carmichael, Anna Elijasz, Michael Fox Elisabet Johannesdottir, George Lasha, Mark Jax, Alton Letto.

Using theatre to examine a complex subject, director Douglas Rintoul researched experiences of exile and identity, working with asylum seekers and migrants from India, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In this new adaptation, Rintoul underpins Shakespeare's classic English text with references to contemporary political exile, offering audiences new perspectives on the play, our own society and the wider world.

Douglas is artistic director of Transport and has directed for the Barbican, Unicorn Theatre, Watermill Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, Dundee Rep Theatre, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, National Theatre Studio, Salisbury Playhouse, New Wolsey Theatre, Ice&Fire and Creation. He is also a long-standing associate director to Complicite and was an assistant and associate director to Deborah Warner.

Transport was awarded house's first Contemporary Classic Theatre commission for their new adaptation of As You Like It. The commission was designed to create and tour a new piece of contemporary classic theatre to new and established theatre audiences, initially across the South East and East regions of the UK.

Transport is an internationally minded arts company based in Folkestone. Positioned on a geographical border, the company's focus is rooted in the near and far looking towards the channel and beyond. Transport exists to make work that celebrates the diversity of the human experience, engages the imagination and promotes new forms and collaborations. Transport's work is highly visual, sonorous, physical and poetic and through collaboration the company produce strong ensemble lead story telling for the theatre - be that new text, devised work or classic drama. Transport is headed by theatre director Douglas Rintoul (Complicte, Barbican, Watermill, National Theatre Studio) and producer Emma Cameron (Complicite, Deborah Warner, Royal Court, National Theatre).

AS YOU LIKE IT
by William Shakespeare
Presented by house
Produced by Transport Theatre in association with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Directed by Douglas Rintoul
http://transport-theatre.eu/

TOUR DATES:

Luxembourg, Grand Théâtre Studio
27, 30 September, 1 October 2013

Box Office +352 47 08 951
http://www.theatreinfo.lu/

Ipswich, New Wolsey Theatre
9 - 12 October
Box Office 01473 295 900
http://www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/

Peterborough, Key Theatre
14 October
Box Office 01733 207 239
http://www.vivacity-peterborough.com/venues/key-theatre

Newbury, Corn Exchange
15 - 16 October
Box Office 0845 5218 218
http://www.cornexchangenew.com/

Harlow, Harlow Playhouse
17 October
Box Office 01279 431 945
http://www.playhouseharlow.com/

Bracknell, South Hill Park
18 October
Box Office 01344 484 123
http://www.southhillpark.org.uk/

Canterbury, Gulbenkian
19 October
Box Office 01227 769 075
http://www.kent.ac.uk/gulbenkian/

Hertford, Hertford Theatre
22 October
Box Office 01992 531 500
http://www.hertfordtheatre.com/

Basingstoke, Haymarket
23-24 October
Box Office 01256 844 244
http://www.anvilarts.org.uk/

Didcot, Cornerstone
25 October
Box Office 01235 515 144
http://www.cornerstone-arts.org/

Portsmouth, New Theatre Royal
26 October
Box Office 023 9264 9000
http://www.newtheatreroyal.com/

Oxford, The North Wall,
29 October
Box Office 01865 319 450
http://www.thenorthwall.org/

Colchester, Lakeside Theatre
30 October
Box Office 01206 873 261
http://lakesidetheatre.org.uk/

Diss, Diss Corn Hall
31 October
Box Office 01379 652 241
http://www.disscornhall.co.uk/

King's Lynn, King's Lynn Arts Centre
1 November
Box Office 01553 764 864
http://www.kingslynnarts.co.uk/

Norwich, Norwich Playhouse
4-5 November
Box Office 01603 598 598
http://www.norwichplayhouse.co.uk/

Stowe, Roxborough Theatre
6 November
Box Office 01280 818 024

Farnham, Maltings
7 November
Box Office 01252 745 444
https://farnhammaltings.com/

Tunbridge Wells, Trinity Theatre
8 November
Box Office 01892 678 678
http://www.trinitytheatre.net/

Brighton, Corn Exchange
9-10 November
Box Office 01273 709 709
http://brightondome.org

Maidenhead, Norden Farm Arts Centre
12 November
Box Office 01628 788 997
http://nordenfarm.org/

Eastleigh, The Point
13 November
Box Office 023 8065 2333
http://www.thepointeastleigh.co.uk/

Folkstone, Quarterhouse
15-16 November
Box Office 01303 858 500
http://www.quarterhouse.co.uk/

London, The Albany
19 - 22 November
Box Office 0208 692 4446
http://www.thealbany.org.uk/