As You Like It

As You Like It
“the best piece of creative theater I have seen in many years”
(Philip Langer, Director, The Theatre Guild)

Standard scholarship denied that this play could contain allegories, and insisted that the various allegorical elements were meaningless and could not be put together coherently.

In 2008 the Dark Lady Players showed otherwise. We used our radical problem-solving techniques to put the pieces together. This decisively showed that this play contains a very coherent allegory about the Roman-Jewish war and Jewish history--as well as a very funny underlying toilet joke, featuring the man who invented the flush toilet a couple of years before this play was written. The play turns out to be a Biblical allegory, from Eden to the Flood. The clown William (who Touchstone wants to kill), turns out to be an allegory for William Shakespeare.

Read a summary of the allegory and watch a 30 minute TV interview, or watch a 20 minute selection of extracts from the 2008 productions. Or read articles about the productions.