As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
This RSC production opened at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, on the 7th September 1989. Ultz’s designs were based on Caird’s Swedish production that played at Klarateatern in Stockholm in 1984.
The production played in repertoire for the rest of the Stratford season and transferred to the Barbican Theatre in London, where it opened on 11th April 1990.
Creative Team
| Directed by John Caird | |
| Designed by Ultz | |
| Lighting by Alan Burrett | |
| Music by Ilona Sekacz | |
| Fight Director | Jannica Svärd |
| Choreography by Matthew Bourne | |
| Sound by Charles Horne | |
| Dialect Coach | Penny Dyer |
| Company Voice Work | Cicely Berry, Andrew Wade, Patsy Rodenburg |
| Music Director | Michael Tubbs/John Woolf |
| Assistant Director | Ruth Garnault |
| Design Assistant | Jill Jowett |
| Stage Manager | Maggie MacKay |
| Deputy Stage Manager | Ian Barber |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Lindah Balfour |
Stratford cast
| *The De Boys houshold* | |
| Oliver, *oldest son of Sir Roland de Boys | * Howard Ward |
| Orlando, *his younger brother* | Jerome Flynn |
| Jaques de Boyes, *his youngest brother* | Jason Fleming |
| Old Adam | Eric Francis |
| Dennis | Adrian Hilton |
| *The court* | |
| Duke Frederick | Clifford Rose |
| Celia, *his daughter* | Gillian Bevan |
| Rosalind, *his niece* | Sophie Thompson |
| Touchstone | Mark Williams |
| Le Beau | Hugh Ross |
| Charles | Andrew Tansey |
| *The forest* | |
| Duke Senior, *father to Rosalind* | Clifford Rose |
| Amiens | Craig Pinder |
| Jaques | Hugh Ross |
| Foresters | Simon D’Arcy, Jason Flemyng, Andrew Hesker, Adrian Hilton, |
| Maxwell Hutcheon, David Joyce | |
| Corin | George Malpas |
| Audrey | Joanna Mays |
| Silvius | Alan Cumming |
| Phoebe | Cassie Stuart |
| Sir Oliver Martext | Andrew Hesker |
| William | Andrew Tansey |
| Goatgirls | Judith Brydon, Clara Onyemere, Alison Ruffelle |
| Pages | Charlene O’Dowd, Louise Potter, Charlotte Potts, Minna Zouhou, |
| Paul Brookes, Andrew Kwan, Robert Langley, Ray Lawley | |
| Hymen | Andrew Tansey |
Stratford musicians
| Flute | Ian Reynolds |
| Violin | Richard Springate |
| Accordion | Jane Sebba |
| Clarinet | Edward Watson |
| Double Bass | John Smith |
| Percussion | Peter Hall/James Jones |
| Keyboards | John Woolf |
Barbican cast
| *The De Boys household* | |
| Oliver, *oldest son of Sir Roland de Boys | * Howard Ward |
| Orlando, *his younger brother* | Jerome Flynn |
| Jaques de Boyes, *his youngest brother* | Jason Fleming |
| Old Adam | Eric Francis |
| Dennis | Adrian Hilton |
| *The Court* | |
| Duke Frederick | Clifford Rose |
| Celia, *his daughter* | Gillian Bevan |
| Rosalind, *his niece* | Sophie Thompson |
| Touchstone | Mark Williams |
| Le Beau | Hugh Ross |
| Charles | Andrew Tansey |
| *The forest* | |
| Duke Senior, *father to Rosalind* | Clifford Rose |
| Amiens | Craig Pinder |
| Jaques | Hugh Ross |
| Foresters | Simon D’Arcy, Jason Flemyng, Andrew Hesker, Adrian Hilton, |
| Maxwell Hutcheon, David Joyce | |
| Corin | George Malpas |
| Audrey | Joanna Mays |
| Silvius | Alan Cumming |
| Phoebe | Cassie Stuart |
| Sir Oliver Martext | Andrew Hesker |
| William | Andrew Tansey |
| Goatgirls | Lucy Ellis, Alison Ruffelle, |
| Pages | Belinda Baldwin, Louisa Baldwin, Josefa Caetano da Rocha, Gethin Davies, Jonathan Freedman, Andrew Funnell, Oliver Gold, Neil Saglani, Amit Shah, Candida Vaz |
| Hymen | Andrew Tansey |
Barbican musicians
| Flute | Ian Reynolds |
| Violin | Richard Springate |
| Accordion | Jane Sebba |
| Clarinet | Edward Watson |
| Double Bass | John Smith |
| Percussion | Peter Hall/James Jones |
| Keyboards | John Woolf |