Twelfth Night
From: Wednesday, 4th January 2012
To: Saturday, 18 February 2012
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Synopsis
Or What You Will. Shakespeare comedy of mistaken identity, practical jokes and unrequited love. Rescued from a shipwreck the twins Viola and Sebastian arrive independently in Illyria, both thinking the other is drowned. Viola disguises herself as a boy and finds employment with the Duke who is in love with Olivia. Malvolio is the subject of a cruel joke played on him by Sir Toby Belch (yellow stockings cross-gartered) leading him to believe that Olivia loves him. But Olivia has fallen in love with the disguised Viola, while she is in love with the Duke (following it so far?!).
Our Review:
19 January 2012
"If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction." When Feste speaks this line midway through a play that involves identical twins, cross-dressing, mistaken identities and yellow cross-garters, audiences chuckle knowingly. Sure, the plot’s improbable; but who cares when it’s this fun?
This adaptation of Twelfth Night by Faction Theatre is lightheartedly ludicrous, and its strengths lie in the excellent characterisation. Sir Andrew (Jonny McPherson) is endearingly bumbling throughout, almost as if he’d wandered into the drama by mistake on his way to the Upper Class Twit of the Year contest. With the charm and timing of Oliver Chris, his moustachioed bungling of the simplest of tasks frequently has the audience erupting into laughter.
Maria (Leonie Hill) is an excellent foil to Sir Andrew and Sir Toby (Richard Delaney), her cockney mischievousness and streetwise intelligence contrasting well with the...
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