ABOUT TWELFTH NIGHT

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“Frothy fun - but with bite.” –The Times

 

Twelfth Night is a story of unrequited love - both hilarious and heartbreaking. Viola is shipwrecked on the shore of a strange country. She disguises herself so that she might serve Orsino, the Duke. While Viola falls for the Duke, he pines after the fair Olivia, who mourns the deaths of her father and brother. While she mourns, her uncle and a spendthrift knight who failed to woo her wreak havoc in the house. Their debauchery ensures the wrath of the tight-collared and arrogant steward, Malvolio, and they plot their revenge. Meanwhile, Viola's brother Sebastian, presumed drowned in the shipwreck that delivered her to Illyria, is alive and with an infamous pirate in tow. In Shakespeare's comedic masterwork, "nothing that is so is so."

 

“The funniest of Shakespeare's plays… only the clown among all its characters is essentially sane.” –Harold Bloom

 

“In [Twelfth Night], disguise comes before a fall. All the characters are in some way not what they seem. And all are ultimately revealed to be what they really are, which they themselves do not initially understand. Before the end, pretty much everybody takes a tumble, physically as well as metaphorically.” –New York Times

 

“Having Burbage Theatre Co in Pawtucket gives audiences easy access to well done theatre.”

–Pawtucket Times

 

 

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL

by William Shakespeare, directed by Jeff Church

 

CAST

Viola, Alison Russo     

Duke Orsino, Leo Castro     

Olivia, Allison Crews     

Maria, Margaret Melozzi     

Sir Toby Belch, Tom Gleadow*

Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Richard Whitehead

Malvolio, Dillon Medina     

Feste, the Jester, Ben Church     

Sebastian, Marc Mancini     

Antonio, Jason Quinn     

Fabian, Gabrielle McCauley     

Valentine/Captain/Priest, Helena Tafuri     

 

PRODUCTION CREW

Stage Management/Lighting Design, Jessica Winward

Production Design, Andrew Iacovelli

Technical Director, Trevor Elliot

Production Assistant, Liz Hallenbeck

Costume Design/Coordination, Morgan Clark

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