Twelfth Night
This year the play is Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. It’s a comedy that revolves around a love-struck lord, two separated twins (boy and girl), a lady in mourning, some drunk troublemakers with a scheming lady’s maid, and a whole lot of bad luck. I play Malvolio, who is the servant of the lady Olivia. She lost her father and brother, and pledged to mourn for 7 years and not love until it was over. Malvolio runs her household, and is the closest thing she has to a father at the moment. But Malvolio’s strict ways earned him some enemies. He gets locked in the closet because he’s basically the communal punching bag. Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are drunks. Sir Andrew wishes to court the lady, but gets nowhere. Sir Toby is Olivia’s uncle, and in a relationship with Maria (pronounced Mariah). Maria is Olivia’s maid, the secondary head of the house. She and the drunks dislike Malvolio, so they set him up to read a letter that he thinks is from Olivia. They do this with some aid from Fabian, who is a troublemaker in Olivia’s household. It’s totally embarrassing. Antonio has saved Sebastian, the male twin, but has enemies in the court of the Count Orsino, who loves Olivia. Viola, the female twin, is saved by the Sea Captain, and pretends to be a dude. She falls for Orsino. Our best show was Friday night, but we have a few mishaps. Overall, it went pretty well.
