TWELFTH NIGHT
TWELFTH NIGHT
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Herman LeVern Jones
DATES HELD: May 28 - June 8, 2004
LOCATION: Sertoma Ampitheatre at Bond Park
ABOUT THE SHOW:
The play “Twelfth Night” — considered by many critics to be Shakespeare’s most complete and polished comedy — is a tangle of mistaken identity, love, silliness and occasional melancholy.
Twins Viola (played by Lynne Guglielmi) and Sebastian (Brian Graves) have been shipwrecked in the land of Illyria, where Count Orsino (David Bland) pines away for the love of Lady Olivia (Jennifer Lukas Joyner), who has sworn off all men as she mourns her brother’s death. Orsino sends his new manservant Cesario (who happens to be Viola in disguise) to Olivia with messages and tokens of love.
But Viola — who thinks her lookalike brother dead — is in love with Orsino and Olivia falls in love with Cesario. Olivia’s uncle Sir Toby spends his time drinking with Sir Andrew (Thom Haynes), who wants to marry Olivia. Maria (Debra Grannan), Andrew and Toby convince Olivia’s servant, the conceited and malevolent Malvolio (Matt Schedler), that Olivia is in love with him.
