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Twelfth
Night
by
William Shakespeare
Performed
at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre,
Stratford-upon-Avon
Opened on 2nd July 1987
Transferred to the Barbican Theatre,
London
Opened on 31st March 1988
The
Royal Shakespeare Company
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Pictures
from Twelfth Night
(please
click on each picture for a larger version)
Roger
Allam as Sir Toby Belch
and Pippa Guard as Maria |
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Roger
Allam as Sir Toby Belch
and Paul Spence as Sebastian |
Jim
Hooper as Fabian, Roger Allam as Sir Toby
Belch
and David Bradley as Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
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David
Bradley as Sir Andrew Aguecheek,
Roger Allam as Sir Toby Belch and Jim
Hooper as Fabian |
David
Bradley as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
and Roger Allam as Sir Toby Belch |
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Jim
Hooper as Fabian,
Roger Allam as Sir Toby Belch
and David Bradley as
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
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David
Bradley as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Bruce
Alexander as Feste
and Roger Allam as Sir Toby Belch |
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John
Carlisle as Malvolio |
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| Roger
Allam as Sir Toby Belch |
John
Carlisle as Malvolio |
Roger
Allam as Sir Toby Belch |
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Harriet
Walter as Viola & Donald Sumpter as
Duke Orsino
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Roger
Allam as Sir Toby Belch |
Rehearsal Photographs
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David
Bradley, Roger Allam
and Harriet Walter |
David
Bradley and Roger Allam |
Harriet
Walter and Donald Sumpter |
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| Jim
Hooper, Roger Allam & Pippa Guard |
Pippa
Guard and Roger Allam |
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| CAST: |
| The
Court of the Duke of Illyria |
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| Duke
Orsino |
Donald
Sumpter |
| Curio |
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gentlemen
of the court |
Jeremy
Gilley |
| Valentine |
David
Pullan |
| Viola
(Cesario) |
Harriet
Walter |
| Sea
Captain |
Richard
Conway
(Stratford)
Michael Loughnan
(London) |
| The
Household of the Lady Olivia |
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| Olivia |
Deborah
Findlay |
| Sir
Toby Belch, her cousin |
Roger
Allam |
| Maria,
a gentlewoman |
Pippa
Guard |
| Sir
Andrew Aguecheek |
David
Bradley |
| Feste,
a clown |
Bruce
Alexander |
| Malvolio,
her steward |
Antony
Sher
(Stratford)
John Carlisle
(London) |
| Fabian |
Jim
Hooper |
| Priest |
Arnold
Yarrow |
| Ladies |
Jane
Leonard
Kate Littlewood
Jane Whittenshaw (London) |
| Officer |
Richard
Conway (Stratford)
Stephen Oxley (London) |
| Sebastian |
Paul
Spence |
| Antonio,
a sea captain |
Paul
Webster |
| Musician,
playing the theorbo |
Steven
Player/Richard Stone |
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| TECHNICAL
TEAM: |
| Directed
by |
Bill
Alexander |
| Assisted
by |
Bill
Buffery |
| Set
by |
Kit
Surrey |
| Costumes
by |
Deirdre
Clancy |
| Lighting
by |
Robert
Bryan & Clive Morris |
| Sound
by |
Michael
McCoy |
| Fights
by |
Malcolm
Ranson |
| Company
Voice Work by |
Cicely
Berry & Patsy Rodenburg |
| Choreography
by |
Lesley
Hutchison |
| Design
Assistant |
Jill
Jowett |
| Stage
Manager |
Jennifer
Smith |
| Deputy
Stage Manager |
Sara
Myatt |
| Assistant
Stage Manager |
Elaine
Huxley |
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| The
Story |
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| Viola
and her brother Sebastian have been shipwrecked
off the coast of Illyria and each believes
the other to be drowned. Viola disguises
herself as a boy and, under the name of
Cesario, enters the service of the Duke
Orsino. The Duke sends Cesario to woo
the Lady Olivia on his behalf but Olivia
falls in love with the attractive 'boy'.
Sebastian
is saved by the sea captain Antonio
and arrives in Illyria.
Malvolio,
Olivia's Steward, disapproves of the
other members of her household - her
cousin Sir Toby Belch, his friend
Sir Andrew Aguecheek and the jester
Feste. Together with Maria, Olivia's
waiting- woman, these three plot Malvolio's
downfall.
Olivia
meets Sebastian and, mistaking him
for Cesario, arranges for them to
be secretly married.
Orsino
is furious at the apparent falseness
of his page, but with the meeting
of the twins, true identities are
revealed and Orsino recognises his
love for Viola. |
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| Date
and Sources |
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| Twelfth
Night is one of the later comedies,
coming after A Midsummer Night's Dream
(1595), Much Ado About Nothing
(1598) and As You Like It (1599).
It has been maintained that the play was
written for performance on Twelfth Night
itself, although there is no real evidence
for this. The first performance on record
was in 1602, when John Manningham, a lawyer
of the Middle Temple, wrote in his diary
entry for 2nd February 'we had a play
Twelve Night or what you will'. Twelfth
Night was published in the 1623 Folio.
Shakespeare's
immediate source was probably Barnaby
Riche's story 'Apolonius and Silla'
in his Farewell to Militarie Profession
(1581). This tale contains the elements
of shipwreck, twins of different sexes,
the girl dressing as a man and her
infatuation with a duke. The ultimate
source, however, is thought to be
an Italian play called Gl'Ingannati
(The Deceived), which was written
by the Academy of the Intronati at
Sienna in 1531. |
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