As You’ll Love It
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- July
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I took in Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s Western-themed “As You Like It” on Saturday’s opening night.
As much as Kurt Rhoads is missed under the tent as an actor, his attention to detail are still felt as director of “As You Like It,” mining Shakespeare’s lighthearted romantic comedy for plenty of laughs, love and song.
The exceptional Joey Parsons is Rosalind to Noel Vélez’s pitch-perfect Orlando. (Photo by Walter Garshagen).
The curtain call, set to Elmer Bernstein’s theme from “The Magnificent Seven,” sent people bounding into the night, wary of wandering skunks (about which the wondrous Nance Williamson, as Jaques, ad-libbed) but happy for a happy ending.
I’ll have my review on Friday, but suffice it to say: You’ll have a ball.
Speaking of balls, one of the Shakespeare Festival’s mini-traditions is that the cast warms up by playing hackeysack. One boy, watching the goings on, wished he had a hackeysack. His enterprising adult companion — must have been his dad — slipped off his shoe, removed his sock and rolled it into a ball.
Instant hackeysack.
You gotta love a dad who can make that work.
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