As You Like It plays out in only two locales: the royal court of the newly empowered Duke Frederick, and the Forest of Arden where the exiled Duke Senior now resides.
When asked about how he approached the design for this production, director Braden Abraham explained “I wanted a sense of an American iconic landscape in a place that also felt familiar to audiences seeing the show. I wanted to make a clear statement about the separation between urban and country life. So I decided to set it loosely in Chicago of the 1920s. The court will be in the city and Arden will be the Illinois prairie.”