As You Like It

Les acteurs et la mise en scène étaient formidables: le rythme, l'interprétation, l'interaction avec le public nous ont beaucoup plu! Et voir cette pièce dans ce lieu était magique! Seul bémol: la personne à l'entrée ne savait pas lire le billet Headout pour nous placer et nous avons failli rater le début de la pièce avec le temps perdu.

An amazing production of As You Like it in the famous Globe -whats not to like!!! And the booking was very simple and easy to do. Altogether a great experience.

The ticketing experience was quite easy. Ordered on line from the US no problem. I absolutely loved the show. I am a bisexual woman, my late wife was trans. It was so heartwarming to see a show that celebrates our culture, especially in light of what is going on in this country.

Very good. Play was fantastic. I would have like the confirmation to be more easily searchable in my email. The tickets bought weeks ago were hard to find, but otherwise all went smoothly.

The management of The Globe were excellent, sorting out our problems with the tickets, which did not mention the cushions which we thought we had already paid for. I was not so keen on the actual performance. Globe performances usually feature excellent and inspired acting. This time I felt I was in the hands of amateurs and exhibitionists rather than accomplished actors. An inclination to show cultish support for non-binary, trans and gender-bending actors was taken to the nth degree and interfered with the interpretation of the play. Some of the actors just could not make themselves heard: they either spoke too quietly or too fast to be understood, which made the play very hard to follow. Some of the actors played it for laughs, making crude asides which were not in the actual play. Shakespearean comedy should come out of the words and gestures of the time, not pasted over with camp looks and clichéd gestures. There was some good acting, particularly the lead, Rosalind, in both her roles. But, unfortunately, trickery and finger-swearing don't help to make an inaudible actor be heard, nor does a cultish obsession with non-binary values help to untangle an admittedly already tangly Shakespearean plot.