As You Like It was Cedarville's first attempt at a Shakespearean play. Duke Senior was banished by his younger brother, Duke Frederick, who kept Duke Senior's daughter (Rosalind) as company for his own daughter (Celia). When Orlando,the son of a friend of Duke Senior, defeated the Duke's wrestler Charles in a match,Frederick banished Rosalind from the kingdom. Celia and Rosalind come up with a plan to escape. Rosalind becomes Ganymede and Celia becomes Aliena and as brother and sister they travel to find the banished Duke. The final scene ends with Orlando and Rosalind, Touchstone and Audrey, Oliver and Celia, and Phoebe and Silvius in a wedding. 35
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