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As You Like It (Public Acts)

The second Public Acts production is a timeless story of chance encounters, featuring a community cast of over 100 members.

The words As You Like It in forest green against a tree made of green hands with two people sitting in those hands as if they were branches

Booking and details

24 — 27 August 2019
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Queen's Theatre Hornchurch

Billet Lane, Hornchurch RM11 1QT

Following triumphant performances of Pericles at the National Theatre in summer 2018, the next Public Acts production, a musical adaptation of As You Like It, was performed at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch.

Forced from their homes, Orlando, Duke Senior, his daughter Rosalind and niece Celia, escape to the Forest of Arden, a fantastical place where all are welcomed and embraced. Lost amidst the trees, they find community and acceptance under the stars…

With a score ranging from calypso to pop, Broadway to soul, this UK premiere saw more than 100 community members, professional actors, and performance groups from across London, come together for a magical tale of faithful friends, feuding families and lovers in disguise.

Performed 24 — 27 August 2019 in the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch.

Partners

Public Acts is the National Theatre’s initiative to create extraordinary acts of theatre and community. Public Acts is inspired by Public Works, the Public Theater’s ground-breaking programme in New York.

Partners

Body & Soul, The Bromley by Bow Centre, Coram, DABD, Faith and Belief Forum, Havering Asian Social Welfare Association (HASWA), Open Age and Thames Reach.

Theatre Partner

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

Production team

Douglas Rintoul

Douglas Rintoul

Director

Hayley Grindle

Hayley Grindle

Set and Costume Designer

Paul Anderson

Paul Anderson

Lighting Designer

Leigh Davies

Leigh Davies

Sound Designer

Yshani Perinpanayagam

Yshani Perinpanayagam

Musical Director

Sundeep Saini

Sundeep Saini

Choreography and Movement

Jules Tipton

Jules Tipton

Assistant Director

Shaina Taub

Shaina Taub

Adaptor, music and lyrics

Laurie Woolery

Laurie Woolery

Adaptor

Gallery

The words 'Introducing As You Like It' in white against a forest green background
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Public Acts – As You Like It

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Our funders

Theatre Nation Partnerships is generously supported by Arts Council England’s Strategic Touring Fund and Garfield Weston Foundation.

Public Acts is supported by Arts Council England’s Strategic Touring Fund, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The CareTech Charitable Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Mosawi Foundation, The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust and Susan Miller and Byron Grote.

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