The Bard is back.

The Port Angeles Community Players’ (PACP) summer production of “The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It,” by Don Nigro, is set for three weeks of shows this month.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Tuesdays, along with 2 p.m. Sunday matinees, from July 12-28, all at the Playhouse main stage, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles. The doors and bar open 30 minutes before curtain time.

Tickets are $18 for adults and $9 for students. Tuesday nights, any remaining tickets are $9 at the door. Tickets are available online at pacommunityplayers.org or at the box office 30 minutes before each performance.

When the prolific Mr. Nigro was asked by a professional theatre company to adapt “As You Like It” so that it could be performed by a company of seven, he devised this original play about a rag-tag group of players led by an old curate who must present Shakespeare’s play. The dramatic interest and the comedy, PACP performers note, derive from their hilarious attempts to impersonate all of Shakespeare’s characters.

The PACP cast, led by director Anna Anderson, bring to the stage romance, wrestling matches, a crying clown, rapid costume changes, a surprising ukulele debut, and a catastrophe of spiraling events that “will leave audiences in stitches,” PACP representatives said.

This was the first community play Anderson directed right out of college, she said.

“Best experience of my life, Anderson said. “Now I’ll be doing it with a mostly female cast and I can’t wait.”