AS YOU LIKE IT
Inaugural production, 2007
Backstage Feature click here for pdf
Downtown Express
"Moritz von Stuelpnagel is a fine shaper of Shakespeare, staging the work with a becoming simplicity and leading the cast into a quietly confident, comfortable playing style."
"Most productions get bogged down in the prestige and reputation of the Bard, and end up with stuffy plays that would only appeal to English professors. Production company poortom, in its way, has put on one of the most respectful Shakespearean adaptations in recent memory - they aim to entertain. poortom is all-male, as Shakespearean productions orginally were, meaning that not only are we allowed to laugh at the dudes in dresses, we're supposed to."
–Ryan Vlastelica, L Magazine
“The clever staging choices and small venue make the whole production feel homey, almost participatory. As old as the play is, in poortom's hands it's new, and it's easy to feel proud of them when it succeeds.”
–Sam Thielman, Backstage
"With its crowd-pleasing buoyancy, all will make you laugh. [As Rosalind], with a performance that explores all the joys, fears and foibles of love, Gratton's performance makes the heart leap."
–offoffonline.com
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