As You Like It Overview
IT WAS DISGUSTING! They spat everywhere! EVERYWHERE! Every time they spoke, spit would spray out of their mouths. It was really, really gross.
As You Like It Story-Line
Well, this As You Like It was done in a more modern dress, and modernised. So, it was different. Here is thy story:
ACT I
SCENE I. Orchard of Oliver's house.
Enter ORLANDO and ADAMORLANDO
As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness....ADAM
Yonder comes my master, your brother.ORLANDO
Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will shake me up.OLIVER
Enter OLIVER
Now, sir! what make you here?ORLANDO
Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing.OLIVER
What mar you then, sir?ORLANDO
Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness....I kid! I would never do that! OK, this is the summary:
A guy called Orlando beats up his brother 'cos he wants his money that was given to him in his daddy's will. His brother gives him a tiddly amount. He goes off to fight people. The guy who he is going to fight tells his brother, and that brother, who is called Oliver, tells the fighter to beat him up and kill him (!). Orlando goes to fight, and two cousins... Backtrack! The new duke banished the old duke. He went into the forest of Arden with some other guys. He had a daughter, but she stayed 'cos the duke's daughter loved her 'more than most sisters' (they were cousins)... Forwardtrack! So the two cousins (Rosalind and Celia) say 'Nuuu! Orlando! Do not fight him! Thou shalt die!' And Orlando falls in love with one of the cousins, Rosalind (the banished duke's daughter) and visa versa. Then the wrestler beats up Orlando, and the cousins say "Nuu!" so Orlando beats up the wrestler! Then he wins, and the (unbanished) duke asks ''Who are you?" and Orlando tells him something bad, and the duke says "GRRRRRRRRRR! Though shalt die!" Then he goes. Then the other cousin, who is called Celia, goes, and Rosalind gives Orlando a necklace and they both go all mushy. Then the duke banishes Rosalind for that and the cousins agree to leave together. Then they run away into the forest. Rosalind dresses up as a boy and calls herself Ganymede. Celia calls herself Aliena (I think). They take their Fool with them. They come across two shepherds, and one is screaming ''PHEOBEEEEE! PHEOBEEEEE!" Once they go Ganymede/Rosalind starts screaming "ORLANDOOO! ORLANDOOO!" Then the shepherds come back and offer the two girls a house and sheep! Then Orlando, who has run away into the forest attacks the duke and his Forest Lords for food. They give him food. Then Orlando runs around singing RUBBISH songs and sticking them on trees and carving his name on them. Ganymede sees him and asks him if he is the guy defacing their young trees. He say he is. Ganymede says he should 'woo' him like he would to Rosalind, which is weird. Then they ask Aliena to marry them, when Orlando still thinks Rosalind is a boy... I actually couldn't see because of a post in the way.
And them Oliver comes into the forest. A snake tries to kill him and a lion to eat him, but Orlando saves his life and gets savaged by the lion. Oliver goes to tell Ganymede/Rosalind and Aliena/Celia. SO OF COURSE Celia falls in love with Oliver and Rosalind fainted. Then apparently Oliver proposes to Celia. Rosalind goes to see Orlando with grapes (REALLY?). The Shepard and Phoebe come along, and Phoebe is in love with Ganymede (?). Then the all go around screaming:
"And I for Rosalind!"-Orlando
"And I for Phoebe!"-Shepard
"And I for Ganymede!"-Phoebe
"And I for NO WOMEN!"-Rosalind
Then the Shepard and Phoebe leave. Orlando says he doesn't need Ganymede anymore, and so Rosalind tells him that she can bring the real Rosalind to marry him the next day. She does. She brings herself. Then they all get married and live HAPPILY EVAH ARFTA! BTW, by all getting married, I mean R/O, C/O, S/P AND F/F (Fool/Fool. Another fool got married to their fool)


With all the spitting, wanting more money,beating each other up,and swapping princesses it sounds like what we call professional rugby here.Did the cast also go and get drunk after the play?
ReplyDeleteWell, they drunk beer in the play, so I don't see why not
DeleteI love the second picture!! (well, you're not blinking...) So was it a Shakespeare play? ("As You Like It," that is)I am hoping you weren't in the front row, otherwise they might have spat on you!! :(
ReplyDeleteHeeeeey! It's not my fault that I always blink! Well, maybe it is. But still.
DeleteLOL. I wasn't spat on, don't worry