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3 mag 2024 · Shakespeare’s best comedies are bursting with multiple plots, and two of the most perfect – A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night – are the most dizzying and delightful. It is quite likely that the latter and later work was first performed on Twelfth Night in 1601 to celebrate the newborn century on Jan. 5 (with a singing clown suggestively named Feste).
4 giorni fa · Director John Gorrie interpreted Twelfth Night as an English country house comedy, and incorporated influences ranging from Luigi Pirandello's play Il Gioco delle Parti to ITV's Upstairs, Downstairs. Gorrie also set the play during the English Civil War in the hopes the use of cavaliers and roundheads would help focus the dramatisation of the conflict between festivity and Puritanism . [38]
- Comedy , Tragedy , History
10 mag 2024 · Director Owen Horsley’s new version of the story of mistaken identities, unrequited love, gender-swapping and drunken revelry is a nostalgic celebration of love in all its forms. Horsley sets the action within a seaside café named after Olivia, thoughtfully designed by Basia Bińkowska.
18 mag 2024 · Twelfth Night is a comedy that mirrors the complexities of life itself, exploring the breadth of human relationships and societal dynamics. This production promises an experience that will linger in the hearts and minds of our audiences long after the final bow.”
11 mag 2024 · On press night we had perfect conditions – which, sadly, can’t be guaranteed every night – and we had an enchanting evening with this newly-imagined, and delightfully camp and queer, version of Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night, directed by Owen Horsley. For those unfamiliar, Twelfth Night is a comedy about mistaken identity: Viola ...
13 mag 2024 · Twelfth Night features a talented cast bringing Shakespeare's classic comedy to life. The story follows a tangled web of mistaken identity, romance, and mischief among a group of characters in Illyria. The most popular cast member today is Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia.
9 mag 2024 · Given a beautiful warm May night and the twinkling surroundings of the Open Air Theatre, I’d probably look fairly kindly on a wilfully abrasive take on ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’, let alone a ...
