Saturday, November 14, 2009

Blame 'As You Like It' On Woodstock, Players Say

Posted at: 3:16 AM ET
From Julia Ann Weeks for www.newhampshire.com:

"Blame it on Woodstock.

"While rehearsing their upcoming production of Shakespeare’s pastoral play “As You Like It,” the Anselmian Abbey Players often suspected director Landis K. Magnuson’s decision to move the 400-year-old play into the 1960s must have something to do with his teenage trek to take part in one of contemporary music’s most pivotal moments.

"Though just 15 when he made an unlikely cross-country journey from Nebraska to upstate New York to hear groundbreaking musicians like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin perform, Magnuson said the driving force behind his latest stage adaptation actually stems from another, more recent road trip."

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