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Twelfth Night.
Playwright - William Shakespeare.
Director - Dominic Hill.
Designer - Tom Piper.
Lighting Designer - Bruno Poet.
Music - Paddy Cunneen.
Company - Dundee Rep Ensemble. .
Cast - here .
Venue - Dundee Rep, Tay Square. Website.
Dates - 3 - 20 September not Sun or Mondays Mats 6 & 13 at
2:30pm.
Run Time - 2 hrs 40 mins including 15 minute interval.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Fresh and enthralling life.
Twelfth Night - Dundee Rep
Ensemble Production
Sir Toby Belch -- John Bett, Sir Andrew Aguecheek - Robert
Paterson.
© Douglas McBride 2003
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In Illyria Orsino is languidly in love with love, while Olivia is shipwrecked
on the sand of her own grief for her father and brother rejects his love
repeatedly. In her house carousing night after night are her horribly
boozy and rakishly charming kinsman Sir Toby Belch, splendidly created
by John Bett, and the suitor he has brought, Robert Paterson's
superbly drippy Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Her maid Maria, the ever watchable
Ann Louise Ross, keeps the household going, her natural fun and
loving nature led astray by the two bachelors.
Into Olivia's drowned in sadness world comes from Orinso a youth, Cesario
to plead his master's case. Neither knows this person has changed appearance
to survive. Believing her brother drowned Viola has taken the personage
of a boy, as the play flows on under Dominic Hill's direction, Emily
Pollet's Viola/Cesario helps hold the disquieting heart of the play
along with the faithful Antonio, Stephen Docherty who lets his
love take him into an Illyria which is particularly dangerous for him.
The other who carries the uncomfortable edge of real pain is Malvolio,
Olivia's servant and John Buick makes sure we are disquieted in
our laughter.
Tom Piper's powerful design suggests an underwatery world with surreal
images. Containing largely excellent gags of music and sight Hill's production
with the rejigged Dundee Ensemble show under his new co-management they've
still got the magical theatrical energy to take a classic and bring it
to fresh and enthralling life. Even the youngest in the audience (under
ten) were alertly responding to Shakespeare's play whose comic set pieces
are here given sucessful new garb but whose painful lashings remind how
tragedy and human cruelty also storm our lives.
©Thelma Good 5 September 2003 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Cast - Orsino - Tom McGovern, Curio - David
Stothard, Viola - Emily Pollet, Maria - Ann Louise Ross, Sir Toby Belch
-- John Bett, Sir Andrew Aguecheek - Robert Paterson, Feste - Thane Bettany,
Olivia - Irene Macdougall, Malvolio - Johm Buick, Sebastian - Mark Kane,
Antonio -Stephen Docherty and Fabian - Keith Fleming.
Theatre Editor, Thelma
Good's e-mail is thelma@edinburghguide.com
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