William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal

Let’s Be Friends

In William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal, Shakespeare finds a worthy adversary. Cliff Cardinal proves himself highly skilled in the art of subterfuge and assumed identities, used time and again by the Bard, to blur the boundaries between true and false. Playing with the sacred trust that exists between audience and artist, Cardinal, Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, invokes theatre’s most precious quality: its capacity to astonish.

Drawing on the powerful satirical energy and bold playfulness his work is known for, Cardinal takes over the Forest of Arden. Subversive and clandestine, Cardinal presents a plea for friendship and solidarity—and an invitation for each of us to consider reconciliation from within the very cells of our bodies.

Produced by Crow’s Theatre
Written and created by Cliff Cardinal
Lighting Design Logan Cracknell
Stage Manager Jennifer Stobart

Full cast to be announced at curtain time of each performance

Written by Sara Fauteux
Translated by David Dalgleish
Surtitles translation Danielle Le Saux-Farmer
Surtitles Operator Vivienne Worotnik

Premiered at Streetcar Crowsnest, Toronto, on September 30, 2021

Presented in association with Maison Théâtre