Hay Girl in the Big City: As You Like It

A bit of culture after the silliness.
This was the first live Shakespeare Mark had ever seen, and we saw it as groundlings at the Globe! ("the PROPER Globe," as one friend in Hay put it, as opposed to the Globe Gallery in Hay).
We had intended to see Much Ado About Nothing, because Mark had seen the Kenneth Branagh film and liked it. I actually got a phone call from him while he was standing in the ticket office of the Globe, to say it was actually As You Like It that was being performed on the night we wanted, and did I mind?
Of course I didn't mind, and I looked it up later to find that it is the only Shakespeare play with a wrestling match in it - and Mark is a big wrestling fan.
So there we were, standing quite near the stage, surrounded by Italian students from the Blair Pascal Lyceo (as it said on their backpacks). One of the girls had a copy of the play open, English on one page with the Italian facing it.
And it was great! It was one of those plays where the actors play several parts, so the Good Duke (straw hat, in the forest) also played his brother the Bad Duke (military jacket) - and Audrey, the love interest for Touchstone the Fool, in a ginger wig and frock! There was a moment when Audrey (who had a beard, as well) is seen in the background of the stage obviously in a bath - bare shoulders, bubbles rising - when Touchstone's head rises beside her, also bare shoulders, with a rubber duck.... And the scene where Touchstone does Very Rude Things to a camera tripod....
The romantic leads, Orlando and Rosalind, were very good indeed (and Rosalind has a lot of the best lines), and Jacques was female. We had a wonderful time!
And boy, did my legs ache the next day!