Twelfth Night
From: Friday, 8th May 2009
To: Sunday, 7 June 2009
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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:
14 May 2009
The Unicorn Ensemble completes its first year’s work with this delightful, imaginatively staged version of Twelfth Night, directed by Rosamunde Hutt, piercing to the heart of the play’s beauty, melancholy and sexual ambiguity.
One actor, John Cockerill, pays Viola and Sebastian, clearly indicating the switch to the audience, but embodying the crucial idea that the one apple has two halves and that Orsino and Olivia are sharing between them an identical split sexual personality, as if he were Joe Orton’s Mr Sloane.
The design by Lou Wilson places the action on a playground setting of a garden with a sunken pool, sandbags, potted plants, a great hanging (upside down) tree and a musical gantry where David Smith (doubling as Orsino and Aguecheek) can retire to drive the musical side of things, or tap out Aguecheek’s challenge (written in a “martial hand”) on an old typewriter.
The whole theatre, which has been reconfigured “in the round,” is used by an ...
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Shakespeare (Author)
Unicorn Theatre (Producer)
Rosamunde Hutt (Director)
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