KRUMLOV SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

English Language Shakespeare in Český Krumlov

We are proud to announce the inaugural production of The Krumlov Shakespeare Festival: William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, courtesy of the Prague Shakespeare Festival. Fresh off the success of its international tour to Texas, USA and Prague, Czech Republic, performances of As You Like It will play in the open air at the Rose Courtyard Theatre of the Hotel Růže in Český Krumlov 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31 August & 1-4 September at 19:00 and on 26, 28, 31 Aug & 4 Sept at 14:00.

This production of As You Like It, performed in English and featuring a multi-national cast of professional theatre artists, is directed by Guy Roberts, Artistic Director of the Prague Shakespeare Festival, and recently played Houston, Texas in the United States and also Prague, Czech Republic drawing wide-spread applause and critical acclaim. Critics wrote of the show: “you will laugh till you cry… beautiful…hilarious…wonderful…superb…excellent…the most amusing, most innovative, and most compelling As You Like It this critic has ever experienced” (extracts of additional reviews below).  

Set in the mythical Forest of Arden As You Like It is one of William Shakespeare's most beloved and vibrant comedies. Sparkling with wit, this joyous tale of a girl disguised as a boy - who tempts the man she loves to fall for the boy she isn't - is flavored with all the longing and pain of everyone's first big romance. Uplifting, awe-inspiring and immense fun, Shakespeare's wondrous comedy is a joyous celebration of the liberating power of love, the redeeming spirit of nature and speaks that unforgettable truth, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

AS YOU LIKE IT
Quotes from Critical Reviews

“Guy Roberts has created the most amusing, most innovative, and most compelling As You Like It this critic has ever experienced… Mr. Roberts has the remarkable ability as a director and an ingenious Shakespearean to make As You Like It seem like it was penned by the Bard only a month or so ago for this particular time and place and, specifically, for these particular actors… ….Certainly this is what the Bard imagined when he wrote this rollicking romp for the politically exiled, the lovelorn, and assorted undesirables…Jessica Boone                         as Rosalind and Ganymede pretty much steals the stage when she is on it. I don’t know if I have ever laughed so hard during a Shakespeare comedy”                           --Buzz Bellmont, Houston Chronicle online critic

“As You Like It charms with wit and whimsy…Director Guy Roberts treats his actors like sheep
— and gets great results - in the Prague Shakespeare Festival production of the merry romantic comedy As You Like It. Roberts maintains an informal air of communal storytelling that's hard to resist, both for the determined invention of the ideas and the energy and spirit of the cast. Jessica Boone                     is utterly winning as the witty, resourceful Rosalind, one of Shakespeare's most beloved heroines. All but the stuffiest souls likely will greet this impish As You Like It with a correspondingly playful, "I like it, I like it."   --Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle