Twelfth Night

The beloved William Shakespeare comedy. Fall in love again, just like Olivia.

This beautiful, wise play is a rich example of Shakespeare’s unparalleled ability to take audiences to the heart of what it means to be human. Using exquisite poetry, his enduring characters suffer and survive the universal rite of passage—falling in deep, helpless, turbulent love. At the end, these folks remain with us more as friends than as enactments.

As a theatre critic recently remarked: “(Romantic love) is, in its purest form, life’s richest reward, its deepest purpose. Unfortunately, it may also be fatal.”

Well, no one dies in Twelfth Night, although Shakespeare never lets us forget that “youth’s a stuff will not endure.” Life, like Lucy Ricardo’s conveyor belt of chocolates, never stops moving. We have to grab as much of it as we can, while we are able taste it. Join us for wine, food, love and songs, as we journey to Illyria this November.

Director

William Peters
Director’s Notes

Cast

• Siren 1: Heather Tinling
• Siren 2: Monica Lenk
• Duke Orsino: Dara Yazdani
• Viola: Allison Combs
• Sea Captain/Officer: Thomas Ignatius
• Sebastian: Michael Saarela
• Sir Toby Belch: Tyler Shilstone
• Maria: Amanda Denison
• Sir Andrew: Joseph Ingram
• The Clown: Ben Landmesser
• Olivia: Shay Wisniewski
• Malvolio: Hugo Martin
• Antonio: Corbin Went
• Priest: James Mayagoitia

Pre-show talk

Join Theatre Arts Professor William Peters, English Professor Bruce Avery and College of Creative Arts Dean Kurt Daw Nov. 12 at 7pm for a discussion of William Shakespeare and Twelfth Night. Room 134, Creative Arts Building.