Playing Malvolio, the quintessential killjoy, at the RSC means following in some pretty illustrious footsteps, inevitably ...

A great while ago the world begun / With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,” sings Stefan Bednarczyk’s Feste at the end of this ...

Orsino is in love with the Countess, Olivia, but she has rejected all his advances. He sends Cesario to woo Olivia on his behalf, but Olivia immediately falls in love with Cesario. In the meantime, ...

At least you cannot accuse them of playing it safe. It is Christmas, and the play is a comedy called Twelfth Night. A few ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has released new photos of its production of Twelfth Night.

It's all too easy to underplay the melancholy of Shakespeare's comedy of divided twins, misplaced – sometimes narcissistic – ...

Starring Oliver Ford Davies, Jane Asher and Patricia Allison, director Tom Littler’s gorgeous 1940s version of William ...

Mountford’s deliciously dozy Sir Andrew also catches the throat with his wistful reminiscence, “I was adored once too.” You feel keenly here the poignant ambivalence of the ending — the questions ...

In Shakespeare’s bittersweet comedy TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL, shipwrecked twins Viola and Sebastian unknowingly spark ...

That foot belongs to Olivia’s fool, Feste, who is given a central role as storyteller, foregrounded much more strongly than in many productions and, in the extremely capable mime-like hands of Michael ...