Earlier this year I went to a new theatre and an old one: Sohoplace at the top of Charing Cross Road to see 'As You Like It' and the Garrick at the bottom of Charing Cross Road for 'Orlando'.
'As You Like It' is one of the more often performed Shakespeare plays, a tale of power and families and, as ever, love. Luckily, it's one of my favourites too. The latest performance was at the new Sohoplace Theatre at the top of Charing Cross Road, just over from Tottenham Court Road station. The ground floor is a restaurant and bar and the theatre is above with great views over Charing Cross Road from the bar windows. It's quite compact but a nice theatre space and a great view from my seat in the circle.
It was a fun production in which we see Rosalind escape to the Forest of Arden to find her love, Orlando. We see Rose Ayling-Ellis as Celia dn Alfred Enoch as Orlando. I think this is the best version of 'As You Like It' I've seen so far.
The old theatre was the Garrick and 'Orlando', a new play based around Virginia Woolf's novel of the same name in which a man wakes up one morning in the court at Constantinople as a woman, a tale from the Elizabethan court to the 1920s. I didn't really know what to expect but I loved it, with its chorus of Virginia Woolfs appearing every now and then and Orlando's housekeeper keeping her on the straight and narrow over the centuries. Emma Corin was great as Orlando.
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