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Received directly:
The Scottish Rite Theatre
presents
As You Like It
directed by Beth Burns
with music by Michael McKelvey
August 7 - 30
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.
207 West 18th Street, Austin, at the corner of 18th and Lavaca, catercorner from the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum.
As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court to find safety and eventually love in the Forest of Arden with her cousin Celia, court jester Touchstone, and many other love-sick characters. Charades and disguise lead to all manner of frolics in the forest, with the lively plot ultimately resulting in a “happily ever after“ finale.
Tickets: Friday and Saturday $12 in advance (online or at Box Office) and $15 at the door
tickets online
Sundays: $10 in advance (online or at Box Office) and $12 at the door
As You Like It is brought to you by the same team behind last year's sparkling Twelfth Night. Director Beth Burns, fresh from the run of her own play The Long Now, returns to direct Shakespeare's pastoral masterpiece, with the help of music director and composer Michael McKelvey, and some of Austin's most accomplished classical actors.
Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .
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