As You Fucking Like It

Or a post-feminist actress playing an Elizabethan actor who plays the role of Rosalinde, who in turn dresses up as a man in the play, who then playfully portrays a woman?

In any case, Rosalinde is at the center of the confusion that turns the heads of many characters in the Forest of Arden. But even if love turns them all into fools, their wit always remains razor-sharp and their last resort to assert themselves in a crazy twisted reality. The Forest of Arden appears as a place where all rules are temporarily suspended: as a retreat for those excluded from society, as a utopian place of an autonomous counter-society with its tempting promise of freedom, where all those seeking refuge find themselves and love anew have to find.

In the joyful, subversive undermining of established norms, Bastian Kraft subjects As you like it to a queer reading and shows a gender comedy that questions the classic in a new way as a liberating and touching game of confusion and transformation.