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Now go we in content to liberty and not to banishment. William Shakespeare As You Like It Coming in Summer 2025CELEBRATING MILL VALLEYS 125TH YEARAND OUR 25TH YEAR William ShakespearesAs You Like ItDirected by Doyle Ott Performance dates Saturdays Sundays and Labor Day MondayAugust 9th to September 1st 2025All shows at 200PM Outdoors Audition datesThursday March 6 700PM900PMSaturday March 8 1100AM200PMMonday March 10 700PM900PMSaturday March 15 callbacks only 1100AM200PM Directors Notes As You Like It is a play about exile the challenges and rewards of living outside the centers of power and knowledgeand the selfknowledge and healing that emanate from Bohemia symbolized here by the Forest of Arden in Shakespeares home county. This production will lean into the dangers of exile including the need to escape and to stay hidden the tension between the need to trust strangers and not knowing whom to trust. As the broken exiles learn to heal shepherds and farmers reclaim the dignity of their craft and a tyrant Duke is transformed emerging like a prayer for the wisdom the people deserve in a ruler.