Twelfth Night (1996)

Synopsis: An intelligent and meditative interpretation emphasising class distinctions and sexual confusion, which ‘has dated better than most...and which captures the shadowy magic of the play well’ (The Guardian 2019).
Language: English
Country: Great Britain; United States
Medium: Film
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of release: 1996
Year of production: 1996
Notes: Available on BoB: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/1296ED32?bcast=128150036

Reviewed by Geoffrey Macnab in Sight and Sound, Vol 6 No 11 (11/96), p60. An extensive critical essay Trevor Nunn’s TWELFTH NIGHT: Contemporary Film and Classic British Theatre by Nicholas R. Jones in Early Modern Literary Studies’8.1(May, 2002):1-38 URL:http://purl.oclc.org/emls/08-1/jonestwel.htm
A clip from this version and the Renaissance Theatre Company production as well as interviews with Trevor Nunn, Imogen Stubbs and Ben Kingsley are included in the National Association for the Teaching of English video TWELFTH NIGHT VIDEO PACK.
Budget $5m
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: film adaptations; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Related items: Twelfth Night Video Pack

URI: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/1296ED32?bcast=128150036

Director

Trevor Nunn

Producer

David Parfitt; Stephen Evans

Cinematographer

Clive Tickner

Writer

William Shakespeare

Screenplay

Trevor Nunn

Cast

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