“Abraham’s production amounts to two plays in one remarkable whole, with each half offering a radically different theatrical experience.
This As You Like It begins in a stark, militaristic winter — where a warehouse setting and prison camp atmosphere bring urgency and high stakes to Duke Frederick’s tyrannical rule…
The transformation to the Forest of Arden in the second act is nothing short of miraculous…
The production’s epilogue, delivered with knowing charm by Farb, becomes a meditation on the show’s duality itself, inviting audiences to embrace both the light and dark elements of the story—and by extension, of life itself. Her direct address to the audience feels less like Shakespeare’s traditional plea for approval and more like a provocative challenge: what will we make of these contrasting halves of the story?”