Details

Or What You Will. Shakespeare comedy of mistaken identity, practical jokes and unrequited love. Rescued from a shipwreck the twins Viola and Sebastian arrive independently in Illyria, both thinking the other is drowned. Viola disguises herself as a boy and finds employment with the Duke who is in love with Olivia. Malvolio is the subject of a cruel joke played on him by Sir Toby Belch (yellow stockings cross-gartered) leading him to believe that Olivia loves him. But Olivia has fallen in love with the disguised Viola, while she is in love with the Duke (following it so far?!).

Cast/Performers

Raphael Bushay (Orsino), Richard Cant (Malvolio), Sally Cheng (Querelle), Andro Cowperthwaite (Sebastian), Anna Francolini (Olivia), Nicholas Karimi (Antonio / Captain), Julie Legrand (Feste), Michael Matus (Toby Belch), Evelyn Miller (Viola), Anita Reynolds (Maria), Matthew Spencer (Andrew), Katherine Toy (Valentine / Priest), Jon Trenchard (Fabian), Harry Waller (Curio / Officer)

Creatives/Company

Author: Shakespeare
Director(s): Owen Horsley, Rachel Brown-Williams (fight / intimacy direction), Ruth Cooper-Brown (fight / intimacy direction - for RC-Annie), Daniel Hay-Gordon (movement), Lotte Hines (casting), Cory Hippolyte (associate director)
Design: Basia Binkowska
Costume: Ryan Dawson Laight
Sound(s): James Hassett (season associate sound designer), Max Pappenheim
Music: Sam Kenyon (and musical supervisor)
Musical Director: Jon Trenchard
Lighting: Aideen Malone