Jonathan Groff is taking up an iconic feminine position for an upcoming Shakespeare manufacturing.
The Tony-winning actor will play Rosalind in an all-male manufacturing of As You Like It on the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.
The comedy will run from September 26 to November 7 in Shakespeare’s hometown.
Right here’s the play’s synopsis: “Rosalind is banished from the court docket of Duke Frederick – however not earlier than she and younger Orlando fall for one another. Searching for out her exiled father within the Forest of Arden together with her devoted cousin, Celia, Rosalind disguises herself as a younger man, Ganymede. In concern of his personal life, Orlando additionally escapes to the forest and shortly runs into Ganymede, who pledges to treatment his lovesickness. However so as to take action, Orlando has to woo her… or relatively, he has to woo ‘him’. Then the video games start.”
Jonathan mentioned he was in shock after getting the supply to play Rosalind.
“I wrote him again and the topic of the e-mail that I wrote again to him was, ‘Holy F*cking Shit.’ That was the topic,” Jonathan advised Deadline.
Fisayo Akinade will play the position of Celia.
Tickets go on sale to the general public on March 18.