By William Shakespeare
Separated in a shipwreck from her twin brother and believing him dead, Viola disguises herself as a boy and is employed by Count Orsino to woo the reluctant Lady Olivia. Olivia is indeed finally awoken from her own grief by a new love, but for the servant and not the master, whilst Viola herself has fallen head over heels for the Count.
Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identities, unrequited love, trickery and drunken reveling was the first play ever staged at the Open Air Theatre in 1932.
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Show all reviewsThe Times
"Edward Dick’s intensely enjoyable production… an amazing pleasure… well thought out and convincing."
Evening Standard
"Clive Rowe's Feste is a grandstanding, sweet-voiced delight."
Financial Times
"Delightfully funny."
Guardian
"Janie Dee as melt-in-the-mouth Olivia and Clive Rowe as an insanely sweet-throated clown, Feste."
Time Out
"Rowe is impressive, producing a steam of inventive visual clowning and delivering the musical numbers with magnetic assurance."
CREATIVE TEAM
- Rachael Canning – Associate Designer
- Edward Dick – Director
- Fotini Dimou – Costume Designer
- Carol Fairlamb – Voice Coach
- Paul Foster – Assistant Director
- Jane Gibson – Movement Director
- Robert Innes Hopkins – Set & Installation Designer
- Terry King – Fight Director
- Simon Mills – Lighting Designer
- Dominic Muldowney – Composer
- Fergus O'Hare – Sound Designer
- Ginny Schiller – Casting Director
CAST
- Claire Benedict – Maria
- Jennifer Bryden – Olivia's Gentlewoman
- Richard Cotton – Antonio
- Andy Cryer – Fabian
- Janie Dee – Olivia
- Natalie Dew – Viola
- Clive Hayward – Sir Andrew Aguecheek
- Ben Ingles – Curio
- Neet Mohan – Sebastian
- Harry Myers – Musician/First Officer
- Richard O'Callaghan – Malvolio
- Oscar Pearce – Orsino
- Annalisa Rossi – Olivia's Gentlewoman
- Clive Rowe – Feste
- Marcello Walton – Sea Captain/Second Officer
- David Whitworth – Priest
- Leon Williams – Valentine
- Tim Woodward – Sir Toby Belch
