Category Archive: THEATRE

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night or What You Will (William Shakespeare) (1601-2) Adelaide 18 December 2014 TVC saw a theatrical reading of the Bard’s best comedy on a blustery summer evening in Victoria Square, the Square expensively revamped with little evidence of revamp.  Yet kudos to the Council for the initiative of returning some varnished culture to the city’s jaded heart.  Twelfth Night, produced by Holly Myers (also an excellent Viola), was played as Harold Bloom prescribed – “at the frenetic tempo that befits this company of zanies and antics.”  Unlike much of the cast’s aspect in Trevor Nunn’s (1996) sombre film, here…

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