As You Like It Opens Theater Season – Wabash College

After two severe, pandemic-riddled years, the Wabash College Theater opens the 2022-23 season with a basic Shakespearean comedy, As You Like It, with performances Oct. 5-8 at 8 p.m. in Ball Theater of the Nice Arts Theater.

Free tickets needs to be reserved by the Box Office.

As You Like It’s considered one of William Shakespeare’s most-performed comedies and follows Rosalind as she flees to the woods the place she encounters a playbill’s value of characters and ultimately finds love. It’s a basic comedy that features a wrestling match, hidden identities, deception, laughs, and a giant, wild wedding ceremony.

“As I contemplate what we’ve got gone by as a campus and group these previous two years, it’s excessive time to take a stroll within the woods with a pricey one,” stated Director Heidi Winters Vogel. “This play invitations us to flee the burden of politics, economics, conflicts, and artifices, and head out to nature.”

The Wabash manufacturing features a slew of first-timers on the Ball Theater stage, together with Ashutosh Mishr, who performs the main lover, Orlando, who Rosalind pursues. The College is lucky to welcome visitor actress Shawnté Gaston as Rosalind (and later Ganymede), who’s reprising her function from a current manufacturing with the Indianapolis Shakespeare Firm.

Orlando wins his wrestling match in opposition to Charles, which is sort of a feat since Charles is performed by Little Big linebacker Jamari Washington. Nonetheless, Orlando is aware of his brother Oliver (Dario Banuelos) is out to get him, so he does what Prof. Vogel advises and heads “out to nature.”

And because it’s Shakespeare, Rosalind is at the very same time banished to the woods alongside together with her bestie, Celia (Ok’tren Wilson), despatched there by the evil Duke Frederick (performed by villainous professor, Dan Rogers). Simply to maintain issues gentle, the courtroom jester Touchstone (performed by Drew Johannes), tags together with Rosalind and Celia – although each disguise themselves as soon as they hit the path.

As they arrive within the wilds of the Forest of Arden, the characters encounter a band of native shepherds and hunters who open their hearts to them. Hayden Kammer, who performs Jaques, will get all the good traces – like “All of the world’s a stage” and “an excessive amount of of a very good factor.”

A lot of the Wabash actors play a number of characters within the play, so the viewers might want to hold a program useful to remain up with the mayhem. Prof. Vogel says, “These individuals are courtiers and nation bumpkins and uncover love in unfamiliar locations and typically trying totally different than they anticipated. All of the whereas wittily debating the weighty problems with energy, gender, and romance.”

The forged additionally consists of Wabash college students Nathan Ellenberger as LeBeau and Silvius; Luke Fincher as Amiens and Forester; and Tiernan Lee Doran as Gaston, Forester, and Puppeteer.

The manufacturing additionally options veteran actresses Betsy Swift as Phebe and Julia Phipps as Audrey; in addition to Trendy Languages Educating Assistants Morgane Cuoc as Eve and Chou Yu as Martext and Puppeteer.

The costumes – and there are a lot of – have been designed by Andrea Bear, who additionally designed and constructed puppets – numerous puppets, together with sheep that look and act like they escaped from the Feller’s farm. Adam Whittredge is the scene designer, who constructed a set with a revolving stage and hovering bushes. Logan Montgomery ’21 and David Vogel are the lighting designers and Cody Bevelhimer composed the music and is the sound designer.

Free tickets can be found on the Fine Arts Box Office. Curtain occasions are 8 p.m. every night, Oct. 5-8. The play is appropriate for audiences of all ages.