Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will

Alternative title: The Shakespeare Plays
Synopsis: Television production directed by John Gorrie with Felicity Kendal as Viola and Sinead Cusack as Olivia; Robert Hardy is Sir Toby Belch.
Series: BBC Television Shakespeare
Language: English
Country: Great Britain; United States
Medium: Television; Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 16 May 1979
Transmission details: 6 Jan 1980 at 19:20 (Channel: BBC2)
Duration: 110 mins

Notes: The production is commercially available on DVD as part of the BBC TV SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION box set (see separate entry).
History: The production was part of the second season (producer: Cedric Messina). It was recorded in six days and first broadcast on Twelfth Night itself.
Textual information: Between 1978 and 1986 the BBC published individual scripts of the series. Each volume of The BBC TV Shakespeare, ed. Peter Alexander et al. (London: British Broadcasting Corporation) contains the full text of the play (the Peter Alexander edition) with accompanying notes on the scene breaks and cuts made in the production, as well as a glossary. A general introduction to the play by series literary advisor John Wilders is followed by an essay on the production of the play by Henry Fenwick. This is based on interviews with actors, directors, and designers.
Reviews: Susan Willis, The BBC Shakespeare Plays: Making the Televised Canon (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991).

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Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/22229 (Accessed 19 Sep 2024)

Felicity Kendal	Viola (later disguised as Cesario)
Sinead Cusack	Olivia
Clive Arrindell	Orsino, Duke of Illyria
Alec McCowen	Malvolio
Trevor Peacock	Feste
Andrew MacLachlan	First Officer
Annette Crosbie	Maria
Arthur Hewlett	Priest
Daniel Webb	Servant
Jean Channon	Waiting woman (Servant)
Malcolm Reynolds	Valentine
Maurice Roeves	Antonio
Michael Thomas	Sebastian
Peter Holt	Second Officer
Ric Morgan	Sea captain (Captain)
Robert Hardy	Sir Toby Belch
Robert Lindsay	Fabian
Ronnie Stevens	Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Ryan Michael	Curio

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