by Colin Thomas | Jun 19, 2023 | Review
It’s wonderful. There are holes in it. But it’s still wonderful. When I first saw director Daryl Cloran’s Beatles-inspired adaptation of As You Like It in its premiere at Bard on the Beach five years ago, I was smitten. Cloran has cut half of Shakespeare’s text and...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 23, 2018 | Review
It could have been a stupid gimmick. Instead, it’s transcendent In this Bard on the Beach production of As You Like It, director Daryl Cloran has excised about half of Shakespeare’s text and replaced it with Beatles songs. Cloran sets his production in British...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 1, 2017 | Review
There’s a lot going on. And a bunch of it works. In setting As You Like It, Shakespeare’s comedy about banishment, director Michael Scholar Jr. draws inspiration from the global refugee crisis. The combination isn’t always a good fit, but it does result in the...
