Daphne Lin Yu Mei as Olivia and Ellen Yeh as Viola (Cesario) at Soochow University’s performance of Twelfth Night at the 4th Chinese Universities Shakespeare Festival Indecisive Olivia has vowed ...
Music not only features in the opening lines of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night — “If music be the ... to his fruitless pursuit of the Lady Olivia (Dorothea Myer-Bennett), who in turn buries ...
The names of lost soldiers (loved ones nominated by real people) are inscribed in a memorial around the stage, a bell tolls until it rings for victory, and it is clear that Olivia is mourning a ...
The presence of 85-year-old Oliver Ford Davies as Malvolio reinforces the play’s exploration of unrealistic desire in age, regret and mortality: Olivia’s jumped-up, killjoy steward is at once ...
It’s a rare Twelfth Night that makes the character of Feste its centre point ... It’s set in the 1940s, and the brother Olivia mourns has been killed in the war. The songs played by Bednarczyk, who ...
“A great while ago the world begun / With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,” sings Stefan Bednarczyk’s Feste at the end of this beautiful, pocket-sized Twelfth Night, crowning a tremendous ...