Roger Hodgman likes As You Like It

The director’s new production of Shakespeare’s life-affirming comedy for Black Swan stars an entirely West Australian cast.
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Jovana Miletic as Rosalind. Image by Rob Frith, Acorn Photography.

Roger Hodgman has directed theatre, opera, musical theatre and television drama in Australia and internationally for over 30 years, but he keeps returning to Shakespeare’s As You Like It, having directed the play professionally in Melbourne and Vancouver, as well as three times with students in three different countries.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts