As You Like it (More Or Less) - Stephen Joseph Theatre

Welcome to 1978. The flares are wide, the collars are pointed, and the price of fish is astonishing.

Orlando DeBois spends most of his days training. Rosalind Duke is living with her cousin Celia after her dad’s hasty departure. Both of them are looking for something more in their lives. They just don’t know what. Until they meet.

For one brief moment both of them see what it is they’ve been missing. This is it. This is the one. This is FOREVER.

Then Rosalind gets a lift home and Orlando heads back to the gym. Still, the heart wants what it wants...

Lovestruck and head-spun, the pair head separately into the wild heart of the Arden Forest, seeking answers and each other. Disguises are donned, identities mistaken, and the odds are stacked against the pair of them. Will true love find a way, or will fate ruin the party for everyone?

In this fast-paced reimagining of Shakespeare’s most joyful romantic comedy, the pastoral Forest of Arden is transformed into the magnificent chaos of a seventies music festival. Here, amidst the glitz of the main stage (and the wrestling tent - it is the seventies after all!), the classic exploration of love, identity and family loyalty gets a radical tune-up.

Packed to the gills with sharp Northern wit, brilliant meta-theatrical madness and the decade’s finest musical anthems, this is As You Like It as you’ve never seen it before. Grab your platforms, find your groove, and discover just how deep your love really is...

From the creative team that brought you the critically acclaimed hits The Comedy of Errors (more or less) and Love’s Labour’s Lost (more or less).