Twelfth Night

Synopsis: Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of Twelfth Night. Directed by Bill Alexander with Harriet Walter as Viola and Antony Sher as Malvolio.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 14 Jul 1987
Duration: 170 mins

Notes: Another master was recorded 14 July 1987 (Understudy copy) and a recording made at the Barbican 24 May 1988.
History: Press night 7 July 1987
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: Alexander, Bill ‘Why shall we make him mad indeed’ - Directing the ‘Dark Room’ scene (Act IV, sc. 2)' in Cookson, Linda & Loughrey, Bryan Critical Essays on ‘Twelfth Night’ (Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1990), pp83-90. Bill Alexander talks about directing the scene in his 1987 production.

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

Harriet Walter	Viola (later disguised as Cesario)
Deborah Findlay	Olivia
Donald Sumpter	Orsino, Duke of Illyria
Antony Sher	Malvolio
Alexander Bruce	Feste
Arnold Yarrow	Priest
David Bradley	Sir Andrew Aguecheek
David Pullan	Valentine
Jane Leonard	Lady
Jane Whittenshaw	Lady
Jeremy Gilley	Curio
Jim Hooper	Fabian
Kate Littlewood	Lady
Paul Spence	Sebastian
Paul Webster	Antonio
Pippa Guard	Maria
Richard Conway	First Officer
Richard Conway	Captain
Roger Allam	Sir Toby Belch

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