Renowned Shakespearean group The Lord Chamberlain’s Men brought the bard’s hilarious gender-bending comedy As You Like It to East Riddlesden Hall in Keighley last night.
The group, the number one open-air Shakespeare touring company in the UK, is made up entirely of men, and perform the plays as they would have been at the Globe Theatre – with the female characters played by men in drag.
As You Like It makes full use of this novelty, as the lead female character in the play, Rosalind, spends much of the play pretending to be a man.
Watching a man playing a woman pretending to be a man went down a storm with the crowd, as did the play’s other larger than life characters of bawdy knaves and fools.
With the stage just metres from the National Trust property and the evening sun warming the crowd, the one-off performance went down a storm.
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