May 2003 – Twelfth Night

  • Playwright – William Shakespeare
  • Location – Harrogate Theatre Main Stage
  • Director – Joan M Mallett

Cast

  • Orsino – Steve Hadi
  • Valentine – Gavin Smith
  • Curio – Nigel Knapton
  • Viola – Rachel Conyers
  • Sebastian – Chris Rawson
  • Olivia – Tammie Romatowski
  • Maria – Judy Methven
  • Sir Toby Belch – Paul Dunstan
  • Sir Andrew Aguecheek – Stuart Kellett
  • Malvolio – Derek Newton
  • Feste – Michael Garside
  • Fabian – Brian Foster
  • A Sea Captain – Dermot Hill
  • Antonio – Mike Sutton
  • A Priest – Gavin Smith
  • An Officer – Dermot Hill
  • Attendants – Lucy Pattison, Jenny Antram
  • Page – Raelene Thompson

Shakespeare’s best loved comedy. It is romantic, comic and approachable, and starts and ends with music.

A brother and sister, spearated by a shipwreck are reconciled, an “affectioned ass” is cut to size by practical jokes and a troop of mischievous gentlemen are taught to behave, but by the end as the Clown says, “the whirligig of time brings in his revenges”.

And, as in all great comedies, they all live happily ever after.