This bright and comic tale is famed as the only play written by Shakespeare in which he is known to have appeared himself - playing Adam, the old retainer to the hero Orlando. The sunniest of his comedies, the play tells of a group of courtiers escaping to the Forest of Arden where they meet, philosophise and fall in love.

Adapted by the acclaimed Shakespearean scholar and children's author Leon Garfield, it is a unique animation made by using oil paints and pastel crayons.
Director Alexei Karaev ; Series editors Martin Lamb and Penelope Middelboe