Twelfth Night

Alternative title: BBC Radio Collection: William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Synopsis: Twelfth Night directed for radio by Eoin O’Callaghan, with Michael Maloney, Josette Simon and Anne-Marie Duff. Introduced by Richard Eyre. With music composed and performed by Neil Brand, and accompanied by Max de Wardener, Stuart Hall and George Hinchcliffe.
Series: Sunday Play, The
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Audio; Radio
Recording date: 3 Apr 1998
Transmission details: 17 May 1998 at 19:30 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)
Duration: 120 mins

Notes: Commercially released as part of the BBC Radio collection series in 1999, cassettes and CDs of the production that include an introduction by Richard Eyre and an essay by Eoin O’Callaghan are available for sale from the BBC Shop (www.bbcshop.com) or through retail outlets.
History: The production marks the 75th anniversary of the first radio broadcast of Shakespeare’s play and was transmitted to complement AN EPIPHANOUS USE OF THE MICROPHONE (see separate entry).
Documentation: Accompanying booklet.
Reviews: Michael P. Jensen comments that the play’s 1930s "chic Mediterranean coastal resort" setting "comes through only from the annoying, near continuous nature sounds, and during infrequent spurts of music that are sometimes old jazz and sometimes music hall". From ‘Entries Play by Play’, in Richard Burt (ed.), Shakespeare after Shakespeare: An Encyclopaedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture, Vol. 2 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007), p. 575, Entry 2612.

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Anne-Marie Duff	Viola (later disguised as Cesario)
Josette Simon	Olivia
Michael Maloney	Orsino, Duke of Illyria
Hugh Ross	Malvolio
Nicky Henson	Feste
Brian Bovell	Antonio
Christopher Wright	Fabian
Dermot Crowley	Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Geraldine Fitzgerald	Maria
Iwan Thomas	Sebastian
John Rowe	Captain
Philip Jackson	Sir Toby Belch

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