Twelfth Night

Synopsis: Video recording of a stage production of Twelfth Night with Illyria transposed to the coast of Brazil in the 1840s, the set suggesting a tropical island as it might have been imagined by Henri Rousseau. Directed by Bram Lewis with Sharon Polcyn as Viola and Ken Kliban as Malvolia.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 22 Aug 1992
Duration: 140 mins

Director

Bram Lewis

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Michael Ward

Production Design

James Tilton

Costume

Jan Finnell

Cast

Sharon Polcyn	Viola (later disguised as Cesario)
Petie Trigg Seale	Olivia
Paul Carlin	Orsino, Duke of Illyria
Ken Kliban	Malvolio
Christopher Dansby Fisher	Antonio
Cliff Spencer	Curio
David Teschendorf	Sir Toby Belch
Donald Berman	Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Earl Whitted	Sebastian
Joseph Whelan	Captain
Lloyd Frazier	Valentine
Marta Vidal	Maria

Reviews: Holden, Stephen ‘Taking an unromantic view of the shipwrecked Viola’ in New York Times (August 15 1992).

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