About As You Like It

"All the world's a stage." Shakespeare's popular pastoral comedy about love, disguises, swapped gender roles, and banishment into the woods comes to the Sunshine Coast in July 2026!

Shakespeare is meant to be seen or heard, not read. In Shakespeare's day, only about 30% of men and 10% of women could read. You went to the theatre to "hear" a play.

As You Like It Performances and Summary Videos

• Globe Theatre's 16thC-period 2009 production (2 hrs 22 min)

• Oxford Theatre Guild's 2020 production

• 1936 film adaptation with Laurence Olivier

• Royal Shakespeare Company summary (2 min)

• HandleBards summary using only props! (6 minutes)

• Gradesaver animated summary (9 minutes)

As You Like It Scripts

• Our edited script and audition sides...coming soon!

• Folger Shakespeare Library's plot synopsis and full unabridged script

• NoSweatShakespeare - modern translation

Actors' Resources for As You Like It

• Royal Shakespeare Company's Exploring Acting As You Like It

• Shakespeare With Sarah Actor's Guide to As You Like It

• Shakespeare For All's free online course, As You Like It

• OpenUniversity's free online course, Reading As You Like It

Actors' Resources for performing Shakespeare

• Glossary of Shakespearean words and names, with pronunciations (click the speaker icon; apostrophe comes just before the stressed syllable)

• For natural yet powerful delivery of Shakespeare's words, few can match Benedict Cumberbatch. Watch his Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech.

• ShakespeareWithSarah Youtube channel

  • Speaking in iambic pentameter

  • How to act Shakespeare

• Ben Crystal's ShakespeareOnToast Youtube channel

  • What's Iambic Pentameter? (5 min)

  • How to Map a Shakespeare Speech (18 min, well worth it)

  • The First Folio, and a 1676 working script copy (9 min)

  • Although Shakespearean Original Pronunciation (10 min, shot in the Globe Theatre) is fascinating, our production will be in ordinary Western Canadian.

• What is an Italian Run?

Renaissance Dance teaching videos

• Galliard (also "Cinquepace" after its five steps - or, if you're Sir Toby, "Sink-a-pace")

• Coranto (also "Courante")

• Bransle (Washerwoman's Bransle - we like the scolding fingers)

• Pavan (also "pavane" or "pavin")

Sunshine Coast Community Shakespeare Project

coastshakespeare ( at ) gmail.com

We are fortunate and grateful to work and play in ch'atlich (Sechelt), on the unceded ancestral lands of the shíshálh Nation.