William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Filter Theatre's Twelfth Night

Tuesday / February 2, 2016 / 8 p.m.

Twelfth Night
Filter Theatre
In association with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Directed by Sean Holmes
Music by Tom Haines and Ross Hughes

Click here to buy ticketsCommissioned for the RSC’s Complete Works Festival in 2006, Filter Theatre’s fast-paced, liberally-edited rendering of Shakespeare’s beloved comedy lands squarely at the intersection of Classical Verse and Riotous Gig. In a swift 90 minutes, this unforgettable story of romance, mistaken identity, gender-bending intrigue, and satire is swept along in a meticulously plotted soundscape and jam session, shuffling folk, jazz, and heavy metal. It’s a sweet, lawless Illyria, where mayhem and melancholy unfold in equal measure. “Rock-and-roll Shakespeare’s a blast…Filter is a company blessed with wit, style, and a touch of magic” (Daily Telegraph, UK).

Tickets: $31

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Free pre-performance talk with Simon Reade
Tuesday, February 2 at 7:00 p.m.
Williams Center for the Arts 

Free brown bag lunch and talk with Simon Reade
Tuesday, February 2 at noon
Gendebien Room, Skillman Library

Simon Reade, author of Dear Mr. Shakespeare: Letters to a Jobbing Playwright and producer and dramaturg of the UK’s Filter Theatre, will give a talk entitled “Reflections on Shakespearean Production in Shakespeare’s Time and Today.” Presented by the David Bishop Skillman Library and the Williams Center for the Arts. Brown bag lunch available on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

 

WebThis engagement of Twelfth Night is made possible through the ArtsCONNECT program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.