The world-renowned Bell Shakespeare company brings its latest performance to Cairns next week.

Shakespearean plays are performed often; you probably saw, or at least read, one or two while you were at school.

But the local school performance isn’t all there is to the Bard.

Australia’s leading Shakespeare theatre company, Bell Shakespeare, is bringing As You Like It to Cairns, giving new insights and high production values to an age-old favourite. Perhaps the story is familiar.

Dad’s made the big ‘treechange’ and the kids aren’t altogether happy to let him do it on his own.

So Rosalind packs her bags and, together with friends Celia and Orlando, heads for the forest of Arden to find her father.

While free from the to-and-fro of life at court, no one is safe, however, from the ups and downs of matters of the heart.

Incognito, Rosalind, in the company of jesters and lovers, goes undercover to right wrongs and, in the process, develops a surprising insight into the nature of love.

Joyfully melding Shakespeare’s favourite devices of comedy and romance – song, scintillating language and intricate plot – As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s most-loved comedies.

Bright, breezy, and reminiscent of the best holiday you ever had, As You Like It, directed by John Bell and featuring Saskia Smith, is a comedy for anyone who has ever contemplated packing it all in for a simpler life.

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