TWELFTH NIGHT or What You Will BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

One of Shakespeare’s most treasured plays, Twelfth Night is a rollicking romantic comedy with several interlaced plots of mistaken identities, practical jokes; and in the words of Feste the jester, “thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.” The twins Sebastian and Viola get separated after their ship wrecks and believe each other has drowned. Viola dresses as a boy to become a servant to the Duke Orsino, falling madly in love with him. But Orsino loves the Countess Olivia and sends Viola (as a boy) to court Olivia on his behalf, but Olivia ends up falling in love with Viola. When Viola’s twin Sebastian arrives, a flood of confusion and mistaken identity abounds.