Twelfth Night

Synopsis: An intelligent and meditative interpretation emphasising class distinctions and sexual confusion, which ‘has dated better than most...and which captures the shadowy magic of the play well’ (The Guardian 2019).
Language: English
Country: Great Britain; United States
Medium: Film
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of release: 1996
Duration: 134 mins; 12,003 feet

Director

Trevor Nunn

Producer

David Parfitt; Stephen Evans

Cinematographer

Clive Tickner

Writer

William Shakespeare

Screenplay

Trevor Nunn

Cast

Imogen Stubbs	Viola (later disguised as Cesario)
Helena Bonham-Carter	Olivia
Toby Stephens	Orsino, Duke of Illyria
Nigel Hawthorne	Malvolio
Ben Kingsley	Feste
Imelda Staunton	Maria
Mel Smith	Sir Toby Belch
Nicholas Farrell	Antonio
Peter Gunn	Fabian
Richard E. Grant	Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Steven Mackintosh	Sebastian
Tim Bentinck	First Officer

Notes: Available on BoB: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/1296ED32?bcast=128150036

Reviewed by Geoffrey Macnab in Sight and Sound, Vol 6 No 11 (11/96), p60. An extensive critical essay Trevor Nunn’s TWELFTH NIGHT: Contemporary Film and Classic British Theatre by Nicholas R. Jones in Early Modern Literary Studies’8.1(May, 2002):1-38 URL:http://purl.oclc.org/emls/08-1/jonestwel.htm
A clip from this version and the Renaissance Theatre Company production as well as interviews with Trevor Nunn, Imogen Stubbs and Ben Kingsley are included in the National Association for the Teaching of English video TWELFTH NIGHT VIDEO PACK.
Budget $5m
Figures: US domestic Total Gross $588,621 (Box Office Guru) 2005