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Make no mistake, however: this is the classic Shakespearean text, delivered with Elizabethan gusto. As You Like It, remarkable even among Shakespeare's comedies for its sheer number of characters, is staged by such intelligent and versatile actors that even the minor roles shine. Nora Zimmett '00 gives a powerful and richly textured performance as Rosalind, the heroine around whom the rest of the play revolves. It's a tremendous responsibility which she handles with grace, strength and wit. Ryan McKittrick, as her romantic counterpart Orlando, gives his character all the charming hot-headedness and lovelorn sincerity required...
...cast that ultimately makes this show such a complete and unique success. Lorenzo Moreno '00, as the "wise fool" Touchstone, handles the rapid-fire patter and the physical burlesque of the Renaissance clown with an ease, energy and good humor that's little short of astonishing. In the great Shakespearean tradition, Erik Amblad '98 dashes in and out of three different roles and is scenestealingly hilarious in the tiny part of the bumpkin rustic, Corin. Chuck O'Toole '97 plays Orlando's usurping elder brother Oliver as a marvelously villainous fop in the first act, although his performance wavers toward...
Although Harvard already boasts a prestigious Shakespearean scholar in Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber, faculty members say the two will complement each other...
...style also allows the actors to speak the dialogue (all from the play) without worrying about whether they sound like John Gielgud. "We tried to bring the language to the actors," he says, "and not have the actors try to satisfy some spurious notion of the correct Shakespearean pronunciation...
...very risky version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus blew across the Loeb Mainstage last weekend, featuring eerie music, shocking slideshows, vinyl costumes, and a set that looked like a construction site. Fortunately, more than enough talent and Shakespearean savvy were poured into this post-modern production to make all the creative risks...