As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare

Sasha Ali, Geovanny Salazar, Femin Cheru, Chris Arackal

As You Like It Lighting Design

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Lighting for Mood

The mood in the play is mostly merry, with joyful dancing, adventure and love. So the lighting portrays that by being clear and bright. In the few scenes where the mood dips, the backlights become gloomier, becoming less bright for a few seconds.

Types of Light

For this production, I would use floodlights to illuminate the whole stage and soft-edged spotlights to focus in on the action in certain scenes.

Palace Scenes

The palace scenes need to have a bright, even distribution of light to show high class ad sophistication.

Forest Scenes

The forest scenes are categorized by a switch to darker colors with a hint of green that flows, and the front lights are still opaque and somewhat bright. The no use of spotlights creates a sense of calm and freedom.

Somewhat like this, but with a little darker lights.

Fighting Scenes

In the fighting scene, the backlight will be dimmed and the spotlight on Orlando and Charles.

Romantic Scenes

Romantic scenes are conveyed through dark lighting and light use of spotlights.

Visual Rhythm

The change in scenes are mostly between the palace and the forest and because the two sets are so different, a slow fade out and fade in will be best to give the viewers a better grasp of the change in scenes and because of the contrast of the brightness of the palace scene and the dimness of the forest scene. This will be the visual rhythm.

Setting Design for As You Like It

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Idea of the Play

The setting should look so real to the point where the viewer gets a feel of actually being a part of the play.

The set really does set the environment of a play, and it is important because it controls the movement of the different actors.

Scenic Environment

Palace Room Scenes: the palace living room should be decorated with antiques and fancy expensive furniture to show that the people living in the palaces were wealthy people.

Forest Scenes: for the forest scenes, a backdrop should be painted with trees and birds, cardboard trees should be made with real leaves and branches so the set looks more 3-d.

Palace Scene

Forest Scene

Courtyard Wedding

Scene

I think that for the courtyard wedding scene, this empty

area would be perfect for all the couples to get married.

Director for

As You Like It

Geovanny Salazar

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DirectorScript

jROSALIND

O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee

wear thy heart in a scarf!

ORLANDO

It is my arm.

ROSALIND

I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws

of a lion.

ORLANDO

Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.

ROSALIND

Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to

swoon when he showed me your handkerchief?

ORLANDO

Ay, and greater wonders than that.

ROSALIND

O, I know where you are: nay, 'tis true: there was

never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams

and Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and

overcame:' for your brother and my sister no sooner

met but they looked, no sooner looked but they

loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner

sighed but they asked one another the reason,..

Casting

I would most likely cast Neil Patrick Harris as Orlando and Jennifer Lawrence as Rosalind. This is become of the roles they have played, their ability to give off an easy humor and still relate to the emotion and love story.

Spine of the play

The spine of the play will revolve on the struggles of the males to attain love, especially from that of Orlando.

Theme

The idea that love is a disease that brings suffering and torment to the lover, or the assumption that the male lover is the slave or servant of his mistress. These ideas are central features of the courtly love tradition, which greatly influenced European literature for hundreds of years before Shakespeare’s time.

Directors Concept

As Orlando runs through the forest decorating every tree with love poems for Rosalind, and as Silvius pines for Phoebe and compares her cruel eyes to a murderer, we cannot help but notice the importance of artifice to life in Ardenne. I will use the scripts poems and the ability of the lights and setting to work with each actor on giving off every emotion and living a story.

Costume DesignerAs You Like It

By: William Shakespeare

Sasha Ali0980157

STYLE

Pastoral Comedy

The countryside lends itself a simplicity in that there are only two settings involved: the court or actual countryside and the Forest of Arden.

It is more idealistic than realistic because of its’ portrayal of the short suffering and quick resolves when concerned with the matter of romance and love.

Historical Period/Setting

Medieval/Golden Age

Late 1598 to early 1600’s

Countryside

Forest of Arden(which is comparable to the Garden of Eden).

Duke FrederickDuke Frederick overthrew his brotherDuke Senior and banished him to the Forest of Arden, taking away all his titles and fortunes. He also took in his daughter Rosalind, as his own daughter Celia was extremely fond of Rosalind and would rather live in exile than live in her palace without her. He is selfish at the beginning and then becomes selfless towards the end when he promises to give Duke Senior back his fortunes and titles.

Celia/Servant

Celia has a special love for Rosalind, and is willing to do pretty much anything in order to stay with her. When her father banishes Rosalind from the palace, Celia says she will go with her and pretend to be her servant. they disappear into the Forest of Arden and Celia shows love for her family through her continuous loyalty to Rosalind.

Rosalind/GanymedeRosalind is Duke Senior’s beloved daughter but chooses to stay with Celia in her palace while her father is banished to the Forest of Arden. She is living as a Lady, and surprisingly holds no hate towards Lord Frederick for usurping her father. She is also one to fall in love quite easily, as we see with her and Orlando De Boys. She is also practical when she decides to dress as a boy and name herself Ganymede when Celia’s father grows tiresome of her popularity over Celia’s and banishes her from his home. She is aware of the dangers of the open road and is willing to giver up her Lady lifestyle to set out and find her father in the Forest of Arden with Celia by her side.

Orlando De Boys

Orlando De Boys is the youngest of 3 brothers and the one who is treated the least like part of the family. After his brother Oliver inherits their father Sir Rowland De Boys’ entire fortune, Orlando is left with no way to pay for his education or a lifestyle at all because his brother chooses to treat him more as a slave then any type of family. Orlando feels he has no purpose in this life and soon finds that his brother is trying to have him murdered. With his loyal servant Adam, he flees his home and escapes in to the Forest of Arden to start a new life.

Oliver De Boys

Oliver De Boys feels a sense of entitlement as his father’s eldest son and the main inheritor of his deceased father’s fortune. He basically gives Orlando none of the money which was supposed to be for his life and education and instead decides to have Orlando killed. Even after Orlando flees in to the Forest of Arden away from his life, Oliver still wants to kill him and decides to take it upon himself. As he is looking for his kid brother, a lion threatens his life and it is none other than Orlando that saves the day. This rude awakening has given Oliver a change of heart and just in time because he instantaneously falls in love with Celia.

Jaques De Boys

Jaques De Boys is the second eldest of the De Boys’ brothers and seems to be the the brother which Oliver favors since his is the education which Oliver pays for. Near the end of the play, Jaques finds everyone in the Forest of Eden and gives them the news that Duke Frederick has had a change of heart due to a sudden recognition of his religious faith and has decided to give Duke Senior his title and all his fortunes which he wrongly took in the first place. He seems to be a level-headed nobleman who does not partake in foolish the plans which his elder brother has first devised.

Adam

Adam is the faithful servant of Orlando De Boys and is described as an older man since he has served the De Boys household for many years. He knows that Oliver has treated Orlando unfairly, and warns him of Oliver’s pending plans to kill him. Adam offers the little fortune he has collected over the years and tells Orlando to flee. Orlando invites Adam to join him on his journey in the Forest of Eden to find a new life all their own.

Dennis

Dennis is the faithful servant to Oliver and notifies his master when Orlando decides to fight Charles the wrestler. Dennis is fond of Oliver and makes him aware of the matter in the hopes that he will talk his kid brother out of this ridiculous idea believing that Orlando will have no chance of beating Charles and only will cause harm to himself. Dennis has no idea that Oliver will use this news to his advantage in his plans to murder Orlando.

Touchstone

Touchstone is called the court fool, and is basically only spoken to in order to get a laugh or two. His remarks are clever and witty and for this reason, Rosalind thinks it best to bring him along when they decide to flee the court. His remarks throughout the play are truly comedic and bring about a sense of laughter for the audience members.

Duke Senior

Duke Senior was usurped from his position by his own brother Duke Frederick, and is father to Rosalind. Any normal nobleman would find being banished to the Forest of Arden a hard task, but Duke Senior seemed extremely open to the idea. Him and his men were like those of Robin Hood, surviving in the wilderness with whatever the could find and Duke Senior had little to complain about. This shows his character as a person who easily adapts and is not phased by the amount of fortune one can obtain.

Technicalities in Costume

The outfits of the Golden Age and Medieval times were hard to put on as they required noblemen to wear layers in times where the Forest of Arden was cold, and the corsets proved extremely difficult but were required for the dresses worn by the Lady’s. Costume changes seem to be few, so getting in and out in a timely manner should not be a problem for this production.