I'm doing something a little different this summer. I will be playing Celia in a limited run of As You Like It. The rehearsals will be in Hong Kong, but the theater itself is in Macau. That's not much of an issue since it is so easy to get from one to the other. People who live in Los Angeles have longer commutes.
The biggest issue for me is that I have not read this play in about a hundred years. I don't really remember much about it, except that it is a comedy, which means it has a happy ending, and it is one of those plays where everyone takes on a thin disguise or alter ego. It also has Rosalind, one of Shakespeare's better female characters. But I'm not playing her.
I did not bother to read the play when I got the part because I need to concentrate on the adaptation we will be doing. When it comes to Shakespeare, different productions can be practically different plays. Reading the original might only confuse things when I read what we are doing. After I have my part down, I will probably look at the standard version and compare the differences.
For now, I need to memorize a few lines, which is pretty easy to do with Bill. He wrote some memorable stuff. Also, Celia is only in a handful of scenes.
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