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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.
13 May 2014
Richard Watts
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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

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

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