Tony Award-winning actor Jonathan Groff to lead all-male cast in AS YOU LIKE IT at RSC
Tony Award-winning Broadway star Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along; Hamilton, Broadway) will play Rosalind in a joyful new all-male production of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It at the RSC’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon from 26 September-7 November, it has been announced.
Directed by RSC Co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans, Groff will be joined by Fisayo Akinade (Cucumber and Banana, Channel 4; Slave Play, West End) in the role of Celia.
Rosalind is banished from the court of Duke Frederick – but not before she and young Orlando fall for each other. Seeking out her exiled father in the Forest of Arden with her devoted cousin, Celia, Rosalind disguises herself as a young man, Ganymede.
In fear of his own life, Orlando also escapes to the forest and soon runs into Ganymede, who pledges to cure his lovesickness. But in order to do so, Orlando has to woo her… or rather, he has to woo ‘him'. Then the games commence.
The creative team includes set designer Anisha Fields, costume designer Colin Richmond, lighting designer Ryan Day, movement director Michela Meazza, and casting director Charlotte Sutton CDG.