Bard on the Beach
Watercolour sketch
©2018 Charlene Brown
In August I went over to Vancouver for
a matinee performance of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, a hilarious version set
in Vancouver in the 1960s, with music by the Beatles, much of it sing-along. This
adaptation actually follows the original plot in a recognizable manner and most
of the action takes place in the Okanagan Forest, which is of course an apple
forest because the Okanagan is one of Canada’s prime fruit-growing areas.
Bard on the Beach presents four Shakespearean plays throughout the summer in two tents, the larger of which seats 733 in 15 tiers. The only other time I attended a play there was many years ago and I’m pretty sure we sat on benches on one level in one tent.
