FESTIVAL PLAYERS SERVE UP AN ALL-MALE “AS YOU LIKE IT”

- 60-date UK tour travels from village greens to castles of celebrity and royalty -

If you go down to the woods today – you could be in for a big surprise! For the Festival Players, one of Britain’s top touring theatre companies, is marking its 22nd year with a pacy performance that will certainly keep audiences guessing.

This year they have chosen to perform Shakespeare’s pastoral romantic comedy

As You Like It – one of Shakespeare’s greatest crowd pleasers. Set in the Forest of Arden all kinds of antics are going on – from amorous advances to clowning, disguise and gender reversals! And the Players will be giving audiences even more of a conundrum - by fielding an all male cast!

The Gloucestershire-based Festival Players will tour the UK with an exclusively male cast between May 31 and August 27 and will bring the play toLampeter House Lampeter Velfry on Wednesday 11th. July

Left to right: Andrew Holloway as Celia, Alan Christopher (Touchstone) and David Lee-Jones as Rosalind/Ganymede

The Players, who set out to deliver high class open-air theatre and make Shakespeare accessible to all, will stage more than 60 performances of the famous play across England, Scotland and Wales – at English country houses, abbeys, parks and village greens to wonderful Welsh gardens like Aberglasney and dramatic Scottish castles including, for the first time, the royal residence of Balmoral.

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