Van Badham // Ashfield Beehive, 2011
Brett Whale’s vision for a 21st century As You Like It has cut all the female characters, added a river of molten lard and led to the principled resignation of a loyal theatre employee. His actors think he’s a god, the wardrobe manager thinks he might be the devil and, when rehearsal room madness causes real world hysteria, what happens next is wildly unpredictable.
Is Brett a genius or is he a brat? Are the problems a simple misunderstanding or an escalating gender war? If a tree grows in a theatre, can the show still go on?
Directed by Travis Green // Written by Van Badham
With Karli Evans, Aileen Huynh, Kirby Medway, Lucy Miller, Abe Mitchell, David Molloy, Joseph Parro, Mark Rogers, Erin Taylor, Brendan Tynan-Davey and Simon Vaughan
Dramaturgy Jenni Medway