Script Analysis

The Play 'As You Like It' was recently reimagined and performed by the Australian Shakespeare Company. Whilst mainly keeping to the script of the original Shakespearean play (Only making some cuts to shorten the play, and created an upbeat tune to the song placed at the start), the costuming, acting and hair and makeup was quite different.

The hair and makeup department was quite different to that of the Elizabethan era. Rather than giving the females a white pale face, overly done lips and rosy red cheeks. The Australian Shakespeare company decided to go for a more 'no makeup' makeup look, giving a laid back and more welcoming to the times feel. The hairstyles were much the same, for the women it was simply curled or straightened, always down and then mens hairstyles were just as laid back, styled to the way the actors wished rather then a set style. The only time they really looked back on the old Elizabethan style was when they decided to dress Touchstones future 'wife' (A man dressed as a woman), they applied excessive amounts of powder to her face, added a red lip to plump the lips and rosy'd up the cheeks. They also added a wonderfully made wig (ha ha) that stuck every which way



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