A terrible disappointment in the land of Shakespea...

A terrible disappointment in the land of Shakespeare's birth on 5/27. When it becomes a massive exercise in will-power to suspend disbelief, it ruins the play. Tourists would be wise to spend their theatre money on production companies which are trying to be entertaining instead of re-writing society.

The staff was great, the venue was great, but As You Like It was terrible. The tallest male actor was Rosalind, a pretty short female was Orlando, and a deaf-mute played Celia. The script & direction were significantly butchered in the name of PC equal opportunity. Some of the rest of the cast were pretty good actors, but the reality disconnects were so extreme as to waste their efforts.

Get a clue Shakespeareans: the Bard didn't use pre-pubescent males as females as a a matter of choice and citing this practice as a rationale for voluntary gender-bending today is lunacy. Nor do I recall him employing actors whose only means of communication are a subset of BSL and hamming it up in compensation. I'll also point out that when signing actors are facing away from any part of the audience, that part of the audience has no clue what is being signed, assuming they can read signing (ha!).