TWELFTH NIGHT
(heads or tails)
by William Shakespeare
“★★★½ A contemporary production of a much loved rom com, it foregrounds gender fluidity and diverse casting while playfully integrating modern technology.”
12 actors, 64 possibilities. Twelve actors each learn two parts and toss a coin at the beginning of each performance to determine their character for the evening.
It’s still Twelfth Night with all its shipwrecks, lovers, drunks, fools, puritans, yellow stockings and rings, but it’s also an extreme experiment riffing on the play’s themes of identity, love, sexuality and fate.
Viola is shipwrecked in a strange land and believing her brother to be dead she dresses as a boy a goes into service for the lovesick Orsino. Orsino loves Olivia, who doesn’t want a bar of him, so he sends the disguised Viola to woo her on his behalf, only to have Olivia fall for Viola. In Illyria music is the food of love, and nothing is what it seems.
written by William Shakespeare
directed and designed by Victor Kalka
assistant director Isabella Milkovitsch
stage manager Christopher Starnawski
costume designer Bronte Barnicoat
production manager Madeleine Picard
sound designer Ryan Devlin
composer Lachlan Massey
assistant stage manager Owen Hirshfeld
with Zac Bush, Eleni Cassimatis, Lucinda Howes, Cameron Hutt, Sarah Greenwood, Rowena McNicol, Lucy Ross, Michael Smith, Leonard Sun, Patrick Sunderland, Caitlin Williams, Harry Winsome
inspired by Hamlet: Heads or Tails, created by Loud Mouth Theatre
presented by Virginia Plain in association with New Theatre
Twelfth Night Rehearsals
📸 Christopher Starnawski
