Gallery: As You Like It

The OSF production is set in America in the early 1930s,
the Forest of Arden seems relocated in the Ozarks, with a
Woody Guthrie mood. Here we see Jacques (Robert Sicular)
played as a down on his luck intellectual, not unknown
in the Depression. Note the coats and hats--besides suggesting
The Grapes of Wrath, they remind us that the play begins in
winter. I was a little disappointed in Sicular's "seven ages" speech
("All the world's a stage..."). It's so familiar that it must be
difficult to make it sound new, but I felt he softened it too much.
On that afternoon anyway.