Ruth Leon recommends…Twelfth Night – Shakespeare’s Globe
Ruth Leon recommendsTwelfth Night – Shakespeare’s Globe
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Shakespeare did enough gender-bending for any lifetime and Twelfth Night is only one of his plays where girls are boys and vice versa. Not content with Shakespeare’s gender muddles, Sean Holmes’s brash and bouncy production of Twelfth Night in an American setting, boasts a crazy mixed-up gender-blind casting that we’re not supposed to notice. Malvolio, Sir Toby Belch, Fabian and Feste are all played by female actors and I’m relieved to report that Olivia and Viola are too, otherwise I’d be so confused I wouldn’t be able to recognise the play. We’ve just got one chance to unravel it all.
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