Cast announced for AS YOU LIKE IT at the Globe Theatre

Young love, comical misunderstandings, and disguises abound in this cheeky, mischievous, and heartwarming comedy. Step into the paradise-like Forest of Eden, home to exiles like Duke Senior, who has been usurped by his brother, the pining lover Orlando, the beautiful Rosalind, cast out by her uncle and forced to disguise herself as a man, and the sly jester Touchstone. Orlando and Rosalind's love story blooms in this dreamy woodland, through secret love notes, wooing, and mistaken identities.

Co‑directed by Sean Holmes (Romeo and Juliet, Pinocchio) and Charlie Josephine (Pinocchio, Cowbois), As You Like It stars Peter Bourke as Adam/Sir Oliver Martext, Jonnie Broadbent as Touchstone, Jurell Carter as Charles/William, Colm Gormley as Duke Senior/Duke Frederick/Corin, Charlie Josephine as Orlando, Thomas Josling as Oliver, Molly Madigan as Phoebe, Phoebe Naughton as Audrey, Gracie Oddie-James as Celia, Katherine Pearce as Jaques, Jordan Rhys as Jaques de Boys/Cover, Lola Shalam as Rosalind, Inez Solomon-Gardner as Ensemble/Cover, and Busa Wickramasuriya as Silvius. 

In the creative team, the Assistant Director is Marley-Rose Liburd, the Assistant Movement Director is Kate Crips, Katie Richardson is the Composer and Musical Director, Paul Wills is Designer, Bethan Clark is the Fight & Intimacy Director, Tamsin Hurtado Clarke is Movement Director, Text is by Simon Trinder, with Voice by Gary Horner.

Co-directors Holmes and Josephine described As You Like It as "a wild play, full of unexpected impossible love that fuels radical transformation.”

As You Like It will run at the Globe Theatre from 14 August to 25 October 2026.

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