Produced By: Swan Theatre Company
Twelfth Night
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 02 Jul 2022
- Times:
- 02 Jul, 19:00
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‘If music be the food of love …’ – ‘All you need is Love … ‘
In the dream world of Illyria Shakespeare plays with the rapidly shifting sands of love to create the mother-of-all rom-coms.
Orsino loves Olivia, who mourns her brother’s death and has ‘abjured the sight and company of men’ …. Viola, shipwrecked, also mourns her brother’s death (in the same shipwreck) is employed (as a man – Cesario) by Orsino to woo Olivia on his behalf … Olivia promptly falls for him/her/Cesario, but he/she/Viola has fallen for Orsino … ‘Even so quickly may one catch the plague’ … just what is love?
And that is just Act One of one of the best-loved comedies ever written. Mix in Malvolio (pompous, proud, tricked into wooing Olivia and being humiliated), Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and others for a rapidly shifting rom-com set in the 1967 Summer of Love (with appropriate music).