That foot belongs to Olivia’s fool, Feste, who is given a central role as storyteller, foregrounded much more strongly than in many productions and, in the extremely capable mime-like hands of Michael ...
“A great while ago the world begun / With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,” sings Stefan Bednarczyk’s Feste at the end of this beautiful, pocket-sized Twelfth Night, crowning a tremendous ...
Viola and her twin brother Sebastian have been shipwrecked, separated and cast ashore in Illyria. Viola disguises herself as a young man and, as ‘Cesario’, gets a job as a servant for the Duke, Orsino ...
Like Twelfth Night itself with regard to Christmas, we’re at the end of the long hangover of VE Day revels, but also at the start of something new, a world in which servants might marry knights ...