Twelfth Night Review
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TWELFTH NIGHT REVIEW Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night is a performance of a Shakespearean comedy about twin siblings, Viola (Imogen Stubbs) and Sebastian (Steven Mackintosh), which are aboard a ship that is wrecked off the coast of the country of Illyria. Although both escape the disaster, they are separated, and each believes the other to be dead. Viola decides to disguise herself as a man under the name of Cesario, in order to protect herself, and goes to work as a servant in Count Orsino's (Toby Stephens) court. Orsino is madly in love with a young countess, Olivia (Helena Bonham Carter), who constantly refuses his love. Orsino sends Viola to woo Olivia in his name but Olivia immediately falls for Viola/Cesario, while, at the same time, Viola realizes that she is in love with Orsino. There is also a sub-plot, where Olivia's drunken uncle, Sir Toby Belch (Mel Smith); her maid,...

