The Bard is back. Well, he never really left – even 400 years after his death, the jokes are still ringing as true and cracking as crisply as if it were the 1600s all over again. The Belvoir St Theatre is to bring the parted siblings, music, food, love and the wisest of fools to the live stage again in its adaption of Twelfth Night.
Fortunately and unfortunately, many of us were invariably first exposed to the Bard and his ways in an English class around the age of ten. While our youthful minds were consumed then mostly by what we were going to have for lunch and who had the biggest marble collection, we at least had our appetites slightly nourished by the work of a man whose work just keeps on giving.
Layer upon layer of wit, intrigue and humour makes for many of Shakespeare’s comedies to be guffaw-filled experiences where the intellect, heart and a stomach in stitches are conscripted into coping with it all.
Belvoir is to bring the night of the twelfth (or what you will) to the living, breathing stage, complete with a gorgeously experienced cast and bountifully talented production creatives. This production has the potential to get through to the tweeting and the grams to bring the old-school back into the limelight.
Twelfth Night Or What You Willcommences Saturday July 23 until Sunday September 4 at Belvoir.
