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Shakespeare in the Park: As You Like It

Rockwell Group

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Designer
Rockwell Group
Client
The Public Theater
Floor area
372.00 ㎡
Completion
2017

Celebrating its fifth season, Public Works is the Public Theater’s initiative to invite a diverse array of New Yorkers to join in creating ambitious works of participatory theater. This year’s production is William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, but with a twist: most of the dialogue has been transformed into a new musical adaptation by Director of Public Works Laurie Woolery and Shaina Taub, featuring music and lyrics by Taub, an acclaimed singer/songwriter. Forced from their homes, Orlando, Duke Senior, his daughter Rosalind and niece Celia, escape to the Forest of Arden, a fantastical place of transformation, where all are welcomed and embraced. Lost amidst the trees, they find community and acceptance under the stars. More than 200 community members and professional actors perform together on the Delacorte stage in this immersive, dream-like tale of faithful friends, feuding families, and lovers in disguise. The cast features diverse performers, from the Ardenite African Drum Circle and the Bronx Wrestling Federation, to an LGBTQ choir and Middle Eastern Dabke dancers.