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TWELFTH NIGHT

Belvoir Street Theatre, Company B - Sydney, Australia
November 8 - December 23, 2000

Director: Richard Roxburgh

Role: Orsino

Cast: Lucy Bell, Marton Csokas, Rodney Dobson, Jonathan Mill, Matthew Moore, Stevie Rodgers, Maya Stange, Richard Sydenham, Darren Weller, Frank Whitten, Daniel Wyllie and Doris Younane

Written by: William Shakespeare

Synopsis:
After exploring the dark corners of fear and paranoia in Hamlet's Elsinore, Shakespeare set sail for Illyria and created his great golden comedy, Twelfth Night. Orsino loves Olivia who loves Viola who loves Orsino and this mad merry-go-round is broken into chaotic fragments by the unheralded arrival of Viola's twin brother Sebastian. Around this quartet is a fantastic parade of humanity - including Sir Toby Belch and Andrew Aguecheek, Malvolio and Feste - four of the greatest characters ever created for actors.

Media Release: Director Richard Roxburgh makes his return to directing after his acclaimed Burning House production of That Eye The Sky. He has assembled a brilliant and youthful team and says this production of Shakespeare's classic comedy will serve as "a love song to the theatre". The design of Twelfth Night will have a distinctly Australian core, with a strong but cheap Elizabethan flavour.

Comments from Director Richard Roxburgh:
"Amateur theatre can sometimes jump with a kind of unrestrained joy and bravado. I think about the theatre I grew up with in the country and although there were probably productions and performances that set playwrights yowling in their sepulchres, there was occasionally, dare I say it, some magic to be found. And so with this production of this luminous play, at Belvoir at this time, and with this clutch of people, it seems appropriate that we draw from that amateur world. Cheap but pretty. Crazed lovers on a merry-go-round of love, and orbiting them some of Shakespeare's most beautiful portraits: hilarious and frail and flawed. Mostly in tights. I've had so much pleasure working with this talented bunch of collaborators, driving the good burghers of South Newtown insane with Euphonium and Tuba. And I hope that despite Feste's injunction that 'Truly sir, and pleasure will be paid, one time or another', our joy in its creation proves infectious."

REVIEWS:

The Daily Telegraph:
"Twelfth Night is a rambunctious comic drama, teeming with irrepressible mischief and deceptions both conscious and unconscious. Director Richard Roxburgh takes full advantage of the confused state and high spirits within the play in this loving recreation... Roxburgh has managed to give the play a contemporary cadence without scouring too hard at the surface of the original. Surely much of the energy of Shakespeare is its timeless insights, yet so many adaptations drive the viewer back to a time removed from their own... Daniel Willey captivates with his ridiculous interpretation of St Andrew Aguecheek and Lucy Bell and Marton Csokas enjoy themselves immensely as the lovelorn Olivia and Orsino."

Sun Herald:
"The fundamental and paradoxical rule of comedy is that the more seriously you take your character, the funnier everyone else will find you. And it is for this reason that the three great performances are Csokas's Orsino, Richard Sydenham's Feste and Whitten's Malvolio. Csokas has fashioned an affectionate parody of the Latin lover: his Orsino is suave and self-aware."

The Australian:
"Maya Stange's lively and engaged Viola, disguised as the boy Cesario, confronts Marton Csokas's posturing, self-obsessed Duke Orsino with a cheerful bravado that only lightly disguises her love for him. Stange is terrific. Lucy Bell's fine Olivia is so crazily passionate in her pursuit of Cesario that the comic absurdity of it all becomes quite poignant... Roxburgh is not interested in the recent bisexual interpretation of Twelfth Night. This is a show about heterosexual men and women who are confused and don't know how to deal with each other. In all these skirmishes in the sex war, the production walks a fine line between comedy and seriousness very cleverly."

The Sydney Morning Herald:
"When Richard Roxburgh repeatedly said his staging of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night would draw inspiration from amateur theatre, I began to get anxious... But by "amateur theatre", Roxburgh means the unbridled enthusiasm of the players and the enjoyment of performance for its own sake and that of the audience - qualities which permeate Company B's superbly performed comical intrigue. Using the time-honoured convention of a stage-within-a-stage, the production is both a valentine to the theatre and a madhouse of unexpressed desires, foolish impulses and dashed hopes... There's no shortage of virtuoso verve in Roxburgh's arresting production. It is excellently cast and many actors shine. Lucy Bell is outstanding as Olivia, her mass of Titian locks and elegant dark silk dress suggesting her split personality and the temptations to danger lurking within... Marton Csokas and Mathew Moore are also forceful and strong."

The Sunday Telegraph:
"With its touch of whimsy and knockabout air, this Richard Roxburgh-directed Twelfth Night gets you in from the very beginning... This play, full of talented actors, is also remarkably well cast. Bell has a great time as the self-obsessed, love-wrought Olivia; Csokas and Stange interact gorgeously in their 'man-to-man' confidences."