As You Like It - Episode 1 - Good Wrestling

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Orlando tells his trusted old servant, Adam, how much it grieves him that his brother Oliver keeps him from their father’s inheritance. Oliver enters and provokes Orlando into attacking him, then relents and agrees to give Orlando part of what’s due to him. After Orlando and Adam depart, Oliver meets privately with the champion wrestler, Charles, and encourages him to break his brother’s neck at their upcoming match. On the day of the match, Duke Frederick’s daughter, Celia, arrives at Madison Square Garden with her cousin, the banished Duke Senior’s daughter, Rosalind. They’re joined by Touchstone, the jester. Once inside, the cousins are taken by the sight of Orlando, who they try to dissuade from wrestling with Charles. Orlando persists on his mission and beats all odds by defeating Charles. Duke Frederick is enraged and leaves the arena when he finds out the victor is the son of Sir Roland du Bois. Rosalind approaches Orlando and gives him a necklace. Orlando is smitten but can’t bring himself to speak. When Duke Frederick’s servant, Le Beau, tells him that Rosalind is the daughter of the banished Duke Senior, he vows to find her again.

The PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “AS YOU LIKE IT”, was written by WILLIAM

SHAKESPEARE and translated into modern English verse by DAVID IVERS. All episodes

were directed by KIM MARTIN-COTTEN. Radio play by CATHERINE EATON.

The cast is as follows:

MEGHAN KREIDLER as ROSALIND

JULIAN CIHI as ORLANDO

ADELIN PHELPS as CELIA

JAMES UDOM as OLIVER and SIR OLIVER MARTEXT

FRANCELLE STEWART DORN as DUKE SENIOR

DAVID IVERS as JACQUES

ANDY GROTELUESCHEN as TOUCHSTONE

LARRY BULL as DUKE FREDERICK and ADAM

KAYLI CARTER as PHEBE

NOAH KEYISHIAN as SILVIUS

ANNA SUNDBERG as AUDREY, LeBEAU

MATT MACNELLY as AMIENS and JACQUES DU BOYS

JANE LUI as HYMEN and VOCALS

SCOTT CORDES as CORIN

H. ADAM HARRIS as CHARLES THE WRESTLER and

WILLIAM

Casting by THE TELSEY OFFICE: KARYN CASL, CSA.

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and Vocals by JANE LUI. Additional vocals by MATT MacNELLY. Sound engineering and

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