←Recommendations of DOUBLE-CROSS-DRESSING

Is disguise truly disguise if it becomes a part of you? That's the question I took away from Ganymede and Ianthe's jaunt through the woods. I love me a good Shakespearean sequel, especially when the verse is so pristine as such. How wonderful! Rosalind and Orlando really remind us: to thine own self be true.

Orlando and Rosalind have never been so endearing! This short play is a brilliant piece of work, deftly written with all the rhythm and charm of Shakespeare's best comedies. The premise is wonderful, and the connection between the lovers is palpable. Produce this all over!

So brilliant as to blind the reader. This is a fantastic short piece that delivers the Shakespearean goods. A pitch perfect recreation of the banter that the bard is celebrated for. A hearty hurrah to Monica Cross!

This witty epilogue for the primary lovers of As You Like It is full of delightful language and emotional resonance. Monica Cross is clearly a master of writing in verse, deploying a whole toolbox full of Shakespearian tricks of the trade to enhance the meaning of the text and offer actors insight into their characters. (The use of asides to highlight irony, and shared lines between Rosalind and Orlando as they approach a renewed understanding are particularly effective.) DOUBLE-CROSS-DRESSING offers an insightful truth about marriage: keeping secrets from each other erodes intimacy, while a shared secret deepens it.

Having been so lucky to be involved in two very special productions of As You Like It so far in my career, this triple Cross wears it's heart on a myriad of sleave making it up to be something quite special. Returning again to the forest to reveal an inner layer through exploration of the outside, such an end note feels well at home as a final chime in to the words of the Bard.

An absolutely charming, genderqueer, iambic verse gracenote to "As You Like It." Fantastic.