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Get up and dance: Shakespeare with a Newfoundland twist

Newfoundland director Jillian Keiley brings down-home spirit to As You Like It
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Trish Lindström (left) as Celia and Petrina Bromley as Rosalind in As You Like It. (Photography by David Hou)
The Candy Palmater Show13:39Get up and dance: Shakespeare with a Newfie twist
Jillian Keiley (Photography by Trish Lindstrom)

For Jillian Keiley, setting the Stratford Festival production of Shakespeare's As You Like It in 1980s Newfoundland was an obvious choice, because the play's themes of city versus country echo what was happening in her home province at that time.

If you go see it, you could end up being a tree or even getting up onstage to dance. That audience interaction of the play springs directly from Newfoundland culture.

Watch the trailer for the Stratford Festival's production of As You Like It:

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