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Theater arts program adds flavor to
A resurgence of Shakespeare is the
latest trend in the entertainment
business. In the past few months,
Shakespeare has been in love, mod
ernized in the movie Ten Things I Hate
About You and now will be featured by
the theater arts department in the pro
duction of “Twelfth Night, or What You
Will.”
This timeless tale is a tangled web
of love and deception that revolves
around Viola, who gets shipwrecked
on the coast of Illyria and assumes her
identical twin brother, Sebastian, is
dead. Once she situates herself in Illyr
ia, she hears of Olivia, a woman who
was saddened over the loss of her own
brother. Moved by Olivia’s mourning,
Viola gets the desire to live with her
and share the pain of losing a brother.
Viola’s plan to meet Olivia is to dis
guise herself as a man and work as one
of Orsino’s pages because they were
the only people Olivia would allow to
see her.
Laurie White, Viola in the play and
a senior theater arts major, said this is
the first lead performance she has
played and found the hardest thing was
to portray Viola’s masculinity.
“It was challenging to play a guy,”
she said. “I had to see how they stand
and other gestures.”
To execute her plan, Viola enlists
help from the captain of the sunken
ship, who has a fancy for her. He buys
her a wardrobe similar to what Sebas
tian wore and feigns the name Cesario.
Once Viola secures work with the
duke, she falls in love with him, but
cannot express it because of her dis
guise. Viola finally gets a chance to vis
it Olivia, only to find that Olivia has no
feelings for Orsino and instead is in
love with Viola, err, Cesario.
This story is complicated further
when Sebastian arrives in Illyria with
Antonio, a sea captain who saved him
from the shipwreck. Antonio encoun
ters Viola and confuses her with Se
bastian, and, after a misunderstanding,
almost gets into a fight. Later, Antonio
bumps into the real Sebastian and
fights with him as a result of the earli
er confrontation with Viola.
The fight is stopped by Olivia, who
confuses Sebastian with Viola and in
vites him inside her home, where they
are eventually married the same day.
The play climaxes as the entire set
of characters end up in the same place
at the same time, with everyone won
dering how this web was spun.
Joshua Cuttill, a sophomore theater
arts major, plays the role of Sebastian,
Viola’s twin, in the play.
Cuttill said learning his role certain
ly had some challenges, since this is the
first Shakespeare play he has acted in.
“The toughest part was getting past
the language,” he said. “Once I got the
Shakespearean language down, it was
easy. ”
Cuttill said his experience with
“Twelfth Night” is one of the best he’s
had.
“This cast is by far the overall most
talented,” he said. “As far as skill lev
el, this group is up there with the best
I’ve worked with.”
Dr. Michael Greenwald, director of
the play and a theater arts professor,
said “Twelfth Night” is his favorite
Shakespeare work for several reasons.
“It has good roles for 14 actors,” he
said. “The romantic plot and comic
plot is good for student ac
tors. ”
This performance marks
the second time Greenwald
has directed “Twelfth
Night” at A&M. Fourteen
years ago, it served as a
stepping-off point for the
newly found department.
The setting has been
changed slightly to Spanish-New
World surroundings to better comple
ment some of the Hispanic actors be
ing featured. The play also highlights
an original score by Penelope Kosz-
tolinyik that includes a tango and oth
er Latin beats.
White said the different setting adds
an interesting angle to the play.
“I think Shakespeare wrote plays
that can be adjusted to any time peri
od,” White said. “[The Spanish setting]
enhances the play and makes it more
fun.”
Dr. James Harner, editor of the
World Shakespeare Bibliography, said
“Twelfth Night” is very typical of
Shakespeare’s style.
“[‘Twelfth Night’] is one of the ro
mantic comedies very frequently per
formed,” he said, “but it doesn’t get
written about too often.”
Harner said behind the comedy of
the play, it aims at showing not to judge
on the basis of appearance.
There will be a pre-show tonight at
8 p.m. at the Rudder Forum, featuring
a Latin American/Tango bar. The cast
will be there to meet patrons.
Performances will be April 15-18
and April 28 to May 1. General admis
sion tickets are $8, and tickets for stu
dents and seniors are $5.
“Twelfth Night” will be performed April 15- 8 and April 28-
May 1 at Rudder Forum. The play by William Shakespeare
has been given a Spanish-New World touch.
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