For my student life blog, on Monday October 9th, I went to watch the play:“Arden/Everywhere: The As You Like It Project”. I decided to watch this play because I need to write the assignment on this show to my Theatre course. I knew this show runs October 8th to 28th in the Baruch Performing Arts Center and it only cost me 16 dollars as a student. The director Jessica Baumann finds the darker shades, as well as topical resonance, in another of shakespeare’s comedies,”As You Like It.” And this story of exiles in love and in conflict becomes a meditation on immigrants and refugees today, and it is i multilingual cast that mixes amateurs with professionals. In fact, I watched one play call:”A streetcar Named Desire” by Anderson Deeann in St. Ann’s Warehouse before. I was not really like watching plays because i think it is very hard to get their meaning and boring. Compare to the movie, it is lack of battles scenes or romantic scenes. Thus, when I watched the play, i almost fall asleep, but in the performance, I could feel they all radiated confidence and energy as they told their stories in English, it movement sequences, in song. At last, I serious finished watch this show. they all performed very well, it is full of non-verbal storytelling and music, it a great introduction to me who is unfamiliar with Shakespeare.
