Northern Broadsides 30th anniversary production of Shakespeare's As You Like It will feature a multi-cultural, gender diverse cast when it visits the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
Pop quiz! What do the words “qualified”, “critical” “enduring” and “original” have in common? The answer is that they are all contranymns – word which have more than one generally accepted meaning in the English language that to a greater or lesser extent contradict each other. Thus “qualified” can mean both skilled (a qualified expert) and limited (a qualified success); it all depends on the context. Such evasiveness of language is used to inform the writing of
Adam by
National Theatre of Scotland and now showing as part of the
BBC Lights Up Festival. This is definitely an “original” in the better sense of the word and explores the key question: “Can the soul of a man be trapped in the body of a woman?”