Adapted from As You Like It by William Shakespeare
New Feet Productions and Baruch Performing Arts Center
Arden/Everywhere is my re-imagining of As You Like It as a story about refugees. Produced by New Feet Productions and hosted by Baruch Performing Arts Center in the fall of 2017, it was performed by a cast of both professional actors and non-professionals from refugee and immigrant communities – 16 actors from 9 different countries. Learn more: ardeneverywhere.com.
Cast: Ali Arkane, Anthony Cason, Helen Cespedes, Kenneth De Abrew, Murodilla Fatkhullaev, Kambi Gathesha, Denisse Jimenez, Dennis Kozee, Anton Kurdakov, Allesandra Mesa, Jorge Pluas, Tommy Schrider, Indika Senanayake, Dikran Tulaine, George Tarr, Liba Vaynberg.
Creative Team: Judy Bowman, Gabriel Hainer Evansohn, Rebecca Kenigsberg, Matt Otto, Brandon Powers, Nicole Slaven, Christina Watanabe, Lico Whitfield.
"My time in Kakuma was a crash course in joy: how it’s not connected to the absence of hardship, how it can emerge almost instantaneously from someone who has seemed to be in the darkest place moments before."
-Theatre and Meaning at Kakuma Refugee Camp, HowlRound
