Monday, January 06, 2025

'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare

6 January 2025

On Friday we were at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon to see 'Twelfth Night'. It was a very enjoyable show, directed by Prasanna Puwanaraja, featuring Samuel West as Malvolio. The set, by James Cotterill, included a huge pipe organ, the pipes standing in for the box tree. Gwyneth Keyworth was a determined and purposeful Viola, Freema Agyeman a strong Olivia and Demetri Goritsas as an American accented Sir Andrew Aguecheek demonstrated comically balletic movement worthy of the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. Michael Grady-Hall's Feste was a clown with the voice of an angel and his Wind and the Rain concluded the play with a delicate poignancy.

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