Tonight I saw the fourth play in as many days from the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s season, As You Like It. I’ve already seen it once this summer, and I’m scheduled to see it one more time. Interestingly, like the first one, this production featured a strong musical element. The music, a kind-of bluesy folky music, was arguably better in a stand-alone sense, but I still think the SF Shakespeare version was a little stronger. Nonetheless, this was still a funny and enjoyable play, particularly towards the end. One of the characters, who played the guitar, and did some of the singing, was very impressive. The key character of Rosalind wasn’t quite as forceful as in the first version, but it worked overall.
Part of my lack of enthusiasm may have had to do with the fact that this was a very warm day, and I somewhat cooked in my room all afternoon. So come play time, I wasn’t feeling great. Nonetheless, this was an enjoyable play, and and interesting contract to the prior production.
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