Playing semi-contemporaneously with The Alchemist (reviewed below), is Maria Aitken's take on As You Like It.
Her staging attempts to take the play's most famous line, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players," absolutely literally by envisioning the play as a movie in production, the forest of Arden as America, and setting each separate scene of the play in later and later periods of American history, echoing the Westward expansion.
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