The document provides details on lighting, set design, and costumes for a production of Shakespeare's As You Like It. For lighting, different lighting schemes are proposed to set the mood for palace versus forest scenes, as well as romantic and fighting scenes. The set would include a painted backdrop and cardboard trees for the forest, and antique furniture for the palace. Costumes from the medieval period would require layers for men and corsets for women, but few changes are needed so transitions should be quick.

1. As You Like It
 By: William Shakespeare
 Sasha Ali, Geovanny Salazar, Femin Cheru, Chris
Arackal

3. Lighting for Mood
The mood in the play is mostly merry, with joyful
dancing, adventure and love. So the lighting portrays
that by being clear and bright. In the few scenes where
the mood dips, the backlights become gloomier,
becoming less bright for a few seconds.

4.  For this production, I would use floodlights to
illuminate the whole stage and soft-edged spotlights
to focus in on the action in certain scenes.
Types of Light

5.  The palace scenes need to have a bright, even
distribution of light to show high class ad
sophistication.
Palace Scenes

6.  The forest scenes are categorized by a switch to
darker colors with a hint of green that flows, and the
front lights are still opaque and somewhat bright.
The no use of spotlights creates a sense of calm
and freedom.
Somewhat like this, but with
a little darker lights.
Forest Scenes

7.  In the fighting scene, the backlight will be dimmed
and the spotlight on Orlando and Charles.
Fighting Scenes

8.  Romantic scenes are conveyed through dark lighting
and light use of spotlights.
Romantic Scenes

9. Visual Rhythm
 The change in scenes are mostly between the
palace and the forest and because the two sets are
so different, a slow fade out and fade in will be best
to give the viewers a better grasp of the change in
scenes and because of the contrast of the
brightness of the palace scene and the dimness of
the forest scene. This will be the visual rhythm.

11. Idea of the Play
 The setting should look so real to the point where
the viewer gets a feel of actually being a part of the
play.
 The set really does set the environment of a play,
and it is important because it controls the movement
of the different actors.

12. Scenic Environment
 Palace Room Scenes: the palace living room
should be decorated with antiques and fancy
expensive furniture to show that the people living
in the palaces were wealthy people.
 Forest Scenes: for the forest scenes, a backdrop
should be painted with trees and birds, cardboard
trees should be made with real leaves and
branches so the set looks more 3-d.

13. Palace Scene

14. Forest Scene

15. Courtyard
Wedding Scene
I think that for the courtyard
wedding scene, this empty area
would be perfect for all the
couples to get married.

17. ROSALIND
O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee
wear thy heart in a scarf!
ORLANDO
It is my arm.
ROSALIND
I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws
of a lion.
ORLANDO
Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.
ROSALIND
Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to
swoon when he showed me your handkerchief?
ORLANDO
Ay, and greater wonders than that.
ROSALIND
O, I know where you are: nay, 'tis true: there was
never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams
and Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and
overcame:' for your brother and my sister no sooner
met but they looked, no sooner looked but they
loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner
sighed but they asked one another the reason,..
Director
Script

18. Casting
 I would most likely cast Neil Patrick Harris as
Orlando and Jennifer Lawrence as Rosalind. This is
become of the roles they have played, their ability to
give off an easy humor and still relate to the emotion
and love story.

19. Spine of the play
 The spine of the play will revolve on the struggles of
the males to attain love, especially from that of
Orlando.

20. Theme
 The idea that love is a disease that brings suffering
and torment to the lover, or the assumption that the
male lover is the slave or servant of his mistress.
These ideas are central features of the courtly love
tradition, which greatly influenced European
literature for hundreds of years before
Shakespeare’s time.

21. Directors Concept

As Orlando runs through the forest decorating every tree with love poems for
Rosalind, and as Silvius pines for Phoebe and compares her cruel eyes to a
murderer, we cannot help but notice the importance of artifice to life in
Ardenne. I will use the scripts poems and the ability of the lights and setting to
work with each actor on giving off every emotion and living a story.

23. STYLE
 Pastoral Comedy
 The countryside lends itself a simplicity in that there
are only two settings involved: the court or actual
countryside and the Forest of Arden.
 It is more idealistic than realistic because of its’
portrayal of the short suffering and quick resolves
when concerned with the matter of romance and
love.

24. Historical Period/Setting
 Medieval/Golden Age
 Late 1598 to early 1600’s
 Countryside
 Forest of Arden(which is comparable to the Garden
of Eden).

25. Duke Frederick
Duke Frederick overthrew his brother
Duke Senior and banished him to the
Forest of Arden, taking away all his
titles and fortunes. He also took in his
daughter Rosalind, as his own
daughter Celia was extremely fond of
Rosalind and would rather live in
exile than live in her palace without
her. He is selfish at the beginning and
then becomes selfless towards the
end when he promises to give Duke
Senior back his fortunes and titles.

26. Celia/Servant
Celia has a special love for
Rosalind, and is willing to do
pretty much anything in order
to stay with her. When her
father banishes Rosalind from
the palace, Celia says she
will go with her and pretend to
be her servant. they
disappear into the Forest of
Arden and Celia shows love
for her family through her
continuous loyalty to
Rosalind.

27. Rosalind/Ganymede
Rosalind is Duke Senior’s beloved
daughter but chooses to stay with Celia
in her palace while her father is banished
to the Forest of Arden. She is living as a
Lady, and surprisingly holds no hate
towards Lord Frederick for usurping her
father. She is also one to fall in love quite
easily, as we see with her and Orlando
De Boys. She is also practical when she
decides to dress as a boy and name
herself Ganymede when Celia’s father
grows tiresome of her popularity over
Celia’s and banishes her from his home.
She is aware of the dangers of the open
road and is willing to giver up her Lady
lifestyle to set out and find her father in
the Forest of Arden with Celia by her
side.

28. Orlando De Boys
Orlando De Boys is the youngest of 3
brothers and the one who is treated
the least like part of the family. After
his brother Oliver inherits their father
Sir Rowland De Boys’ entire fortune,
Orlando is left with no way to pay for
his education or a lifestyle at all
because his brother chooses to treat
him more as a slave then any type of
family. Orlando feels he has no
purpose in this life and soon finds that
his brother is trying to have him
murdered. With his loyal servant
Adam, he flees his home and
escapes in to the Forest of Arden to
start a new life.

29. Oliver De Boys
Oliver De Boys feels a sense of
entitlement as his father’s eldest son
and the main inheritor of his
deceased father’s fortune. He
basically gives Orlando none of the
money which was supposed to be for
his life and education and instead
decides to have Orlando killed. Even
after Orlando flees in to the Forest of
Arden away from his life, Oliver still
wants to kill him and decides to take
it upon himself. As he is looking for
his kid brother, a lion threatens his
life and it is none other than Orlando
that saves the day. This rude
awakening has given Oliver a change
of heart and just in time because he
instantaneously falls in love with

30. Jaques De Boys
Jaques De Boys is the second eldest of
the De Boys’ brothers and seems to be
the the brother which Oliver favors since
his is the education which Oliver pays for.
Near the end of the play, Jaques finds
everyone in the Forest of Eden and gives
them the news that Duke Frederick has
had a change of heart due to a sudden
recognition of his religious faith and has
decided to give Duke Senior his title and
all his fortunes which he wrongly took in
the first place. He seems to be a levelheaded nobleman who does not partake
in foolish the plans which his elder brother
has first devised.

31. Adam
Adam is the faithful servant
of Orlando De Boys and is
described as an older man
since he has served the De
Boys household for many
years. He knows that Oliver
has treated Orlando unfairly,
and warns him of Oliver’s
pending plans to kill him.
Adam offers the little fortune
he has collected over the
years and tells Orlando to
flee. Orlando invites Adam to
join him on his journey in the
Forest of Eden to find a new
life all their own.

32. Dennis
Dennis is the faithful servant to Oliver
and notifies his master when Orlando
decides to fight Charles the wrestler.
Dennis is fond of Oliver and makes
him aware of the matter in the hopes
that he will talk his kid brother out of
this ridiculous idea believing that
Orlando will have no chance of
beating Charles and only will cause
harm to himself. Dennis has no idea
that Oliver will use this news to his
advantage in his plans to murder
Orlando.

33. Touchstone
Touchstone is called the court fool, and is
basically only spoken to in order to get a
laugh or two. His remarks are clever and
witty and for this reason, Rosalind thinks it
best to bring him along when they decide
to flee the court. His remarks throughout
the play are truly comedic and bring about
a sense of laughter for the audience
members.

34. Duke Senior
Duke Senior was usurped from his
position by his own brother Duke
Frederick, and is father to Rosalind.
Any normal nobleman would find
being banished to the Forest of
Arden a hard task, but Duke Senior
seemed extremely open to the idea.
Him and his men were like those of
Robin Hood, surviving in the
wilderness with whatever the could
find and Duke Senior had little to
complain about. This shows his
character as a person who easily
adapts and is not phased by the
amount of fortune one can obtain.

35. Technicalities in Costume
 The outfits of the Golden Age and Medieval times
were hard to put on as they required noblemen to
wear layers in times where the Forest of Arden was
cold, and the corsets proved extremely difficult but
were required for the dresses worn by the Lady’s.
Costume changes seem to be few, so getting in and
out in a timely manner should not be a problem for
this production.