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| As You Like It [75-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing allows for the three Shakespearian songs embedded in the script. |
| Music | Three of Shakespeare's songs (without music) are included in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A 75-minute abridgement of Shakespeare's pastoral comedy.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Girl exiled into forest by powerful uncle and disguises self as boy. Boy kicked out of home by grumpy brother. Boy meets girl again. Girl, as boy, tricks boy into seducing her. Another girl meets girl, and thinking she's a boy, falls in love. Subplot about a jester. Classic love story all round. |
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