“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women
merely players”


Deep in the forest of Arden a duke and his entourage live in exile banished from his brother Frederick’s court. His daughter Rosalind has remained in her uncle’s service to live with her cousin Celia. Before long Frederick grows suspicious of Rosalind and banishes her too. Unable to live without her, her cousin vows to run away with her and they devise a plan to dress Rosalind as a boy and Celia as her servant. With her young lover in hot pursuit Rosalind and Celia make their way into the very same forest in which her own Father now lives.

Throw in a wrestler, some shepherds, a vicar and a wench and you have a forest of farcical frolics.

Choreography by Jon Hall and Jamie Barwood. Directed by Tim Newns and Dan Meigh.