Performance Dates
June 27 - August 2, 2003

Director's Notes

Twelfth Night is Shakespeare's most mature comedy though he continues to explore themes addressed in his other comic plays. The most prevalent of these themes is, of course. love. In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare show us the many and varied faces of love - love for family and friends, love of money and frolic, unrequited love, unspoken love, love at first sight, love of stature and position, self-love, romantic love and the deep and enduring love that drams are made of. He also chooses to give us some of the silliest pranksters to ever grace the stage but even they are affected by love. And, while the play contains some exhilaratingly funny moments and truly ridiculous characters, Shakespeare is not afraid to explore the darker elements of love and reminds us that life is not all "cakes and ale" and inter every life eventually will come "the wind and the rain".

Time: Several months in 1924
Place: The country of Illyria