Patrick Carnegy

Lovers in the Levant

Twelfth Night<br /> Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

issue 31 October 2009

Twelfth Night
Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

It’s a welcome refreshment after the RSC’s recent dramatisations of hard drinking and mass starvation in Russia to be landed on the sun-soaked coast of Mediterranean Illyria, and especially so in the company of a new and exquisitely beguiling Viola. Director Gregory Doran has been to much scholarly trouble in updating Shakespeare’s pirate-infested Illyria to Byron’s Albania.

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