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There's good in everything about this As You Like It

As You Like It
Regents Park Open Air Theatre, London

THE SHAME of this wonderful show is that it’s only scheduled until July 28. Joyful, playful and delightfully funny in all the right places, it deserves far greater exposure than just a three-week run.

There are fabulous performances everywhere you look, with a new-age, dreadlocked Maureen Beattie taking full advantage of her role as the wise, curmudgeonly Jaques and Danny Kirrane and Amy Booth-Steel playing the overwrought lovers Touchstone and Audrey to great comic effect.

Edward Hogg is excellent as an irretrievably lovelorn, idealistic Orlando and Me’sha Bryan is an alluring, sweet-voiced focal point for the musical interludes, well directed and arranged by Phil Bateman.

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