Twelfth Night

Synopsis: Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2012 production of Twelfth Night directed by David Farr. Emily Taafe is Viola.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2012

Director

David Farr

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Adern Ilhan

Production Design

Jon Bausor

Cast

Emily Taafe	Viola (later disguised as Cesario)
Kirsty Bushell	Olivia
Jonathan Slinger	Malvolio
Kevin McMonagle	Feste
Bruce Mackinnon	Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Cecilia Noble	Maria
Felix Hayes	Fabian
Jan Knightley	Antonio
Nicholas Day	Sir Toby Belch
Stephen Hagan	Sebastian

History: The production is part of the World Shakespeare Festival playing as part of ‘What Country Friends is This?', the Shipwreck Trilogy, along with The Comedy of Errors and The Tempest.
Reviews: "... But Emily Taaffe, nicely vehement in her boyish disguise, and Kirsty Bushell as a sexily imperious Olivia play off each other well, and there is an outstanding Malvolio from Jonathan Slinger. With his slicked-down, sandy hair and snooty gaze, as if someone is holding something offensive beneath his nose, he is the epitome of unearned hauteur; and, while his appearance in yellow stockings topped by a gaudy cache-sexe is hilarious, it is funny because of the actor’s eye for psychological detail. What matters is the Slinger, not the thong’. [Michael Billington, The Guardian 16 April 2012].

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

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