The curtain rises Sept. 4 on that classic romantic comedy, “As You Like It.”
But the Long Beach Shakespeare Company will not be at its Helen Borgers Theater in Bixby Knolls that Friday evening. The Shakespearean comedy will be available online, as a streaming production.
Producer Dana Leach said that this is a full production of “As You Like It,” with complete costumes and sets. A 12-actor cast performed as it would a regular opening night in front of an audience of two cameras.
“It is a stage production start to finish,” Leach said. “Then our artistic director, Brando Cutts, edited the film with wide shots and closeups. We want it to feel like coming to the theater for our patrons… Our pet pig, Hamlet, will make an appearance at intermission, as he usually does. A pdf of the program will be available with a ticket purchase.”
The all-volunteer Long Beach Shakespeare Company, like every other theater troupe and performing arts group, is struggling to stay afloat in the midst of closure orders due to the coronavirus pandemic. Leach said that theaters will be part of the last group allowed to reopen — as late as next spring or summer.
Streaming productions allow company members to keep their artistic hands exercised and puts a little money back into the bank account.
Tickets are sold one per household, for $35. Customer gets access to the production at any time from Sept. 4 to Oct. 4.
“That’s less than the cost of two tickets,” Leach said.
The production took more than reading a script and standing on a stage. Actors started rehearsals via Zoom while sets, lighting and costumes were prepared.
Then it was a week of in-person rehearsals, with everyone fully masked and gloved, practicing social distancing whenever possible. When it came time to record, it happened in one take.
“There was no one in the theater except the cast and the camera operators,” Leach said. “I was upstairs, watching it on a monitor.”
In addition to providing the play to patrons, the streaming version is being prepared as an educational package available to teachers and school districts for a small fee, thanks to a grant from the RuMBa Foundation, Leach said. That package includes a study guide and a prerecorded talk by Cutts about the play. The package will be available Oct. 1, along with another featuring “A Woman of No Importance” by Oscar Wilde.
The Shakespeare Company won’t stop its streaming programming with this production, Leach said. A Sherlock Holmes story (“Sherlock Holmes and the Blue Carbuncle”) is in the wings, and something from Edgar Alan Poe is likely around Halloween. A 2021 season is taking shape, as well.
For more information and to order tickets to “As You Like It,” go to LBShakespeare.org or call 562-997-1494. Donations can be made there as well.
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