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

Ellie Nunn (Viola), John Pickard (Sir Toby Belch), Richard Soames (Feste), Kit Loyd (Sebastian), Louis Labovitch (Duke Orsino), Emily Jane Kerr (Maria), Jim Conway (Malvolio), Benjamin Bonar (Sir Andrew Aguecheek), Tamaryn Payne, Chris Thomson, Darrell Davy

Creatives/Company

Author: Shakespeare
Producer: Siobhan Daly (for Grassroots Shakespeare London)