Michael Boyd, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and director of As You LIke It, released the following statement today: The Royal Shakespeare Company has decided not to use rabbits for its performances of As You Like It in New York. The production opened in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2009 in the rural heart of the U.K. The dead rabbits used for the performances in Britain—part of a scene illustrating the contrast between court and countryside, where life was harsher and people hunted and prepared their own food—were sourced locally from gamekeepers as part of a farming control program. The RSC and the RSPCA (the U.K. equivalent of the ASPCA) were satisfied that the rabbits used for the performances in Britain were sourced responsibly and killed humanely. Sunday, July 2, 2011
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