Twelfth Night, or What You Will
What You Will, or Twelfth Night
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Eric Tucker
Costume Design by Valérie Thérèse bart
Lighting Design by Les Dickert
Sound Design by Eric Tucker
Stage Management by Katie Young
Bedlam
Dorothy Strelsin Theatre NYC, Central Square Theatre Cambridge
All photos by Jenny Anderson
TWELFTH NIGHT or WHAT YOU WILL
"These clothes are good enough to drink in; and so be these boots too: an they be not, let them hang themselves in their own straps."--Toby
"The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen."--Feste
"Sir Toby will be sworn that I am no fox; but he will not pass his word for two pence that you are no fool."--Feste
"If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant."--Antonio
"Fate, show thy force: ourselves we do not owe; What is decreed must be, and be this so."--Olivia
"I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting on."--Malvolio
Malvolio in "yellow cross-gartered stockings"
"God have mercy upon one of our souls! He may have mercy upon mine; but my hope is better, and so look to thyself."--Aguecheek
"Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused: I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art"--Malvolio
"I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law in Illyria: though I struck him first, yet it's no matter for that."--Aguecheek
"Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends, I am abused"--Feste
TWELFTH NIGHT or WHAT YOU WILL
"Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul"--Orsino
Feste
"Art any more than a steward? Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"--Sir Toby
"Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit, do give thee five-fold blazon"--Olivia
"But, come what may, I do adore thee so, that danger shall seem sport, and I will go"--Antonio
"If this young gentleman Have done offence, I take the fault on me: If you offend him, I for him defy you."--Antonio
"This comes with seeking you: But there's no remedy; I shall answer it."--Antonio
"Love sought is good, but given unsought better."--Olivia
"You should then have accosted her; and with some excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should have banged the youth into dumbness."--Fabian
Malvolio in "yellow cross-gartered stockings"
Hat Choreography
"Madman, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness but ignorance"--Feste
"I am ready to distrust mine eyes and wrangle with my reason that persuades me to any other trust but that I am mad or else the lady's mad"--Sebastian
"Do not embrace me till each circumstance of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump that I am Viola"--Viola
Orsino, Viola/Sebastian, Olivia
"But that's all one, our play is done, and we'll strive to please you every day"
TWELFTH NIGHT or WHAT YOU WILL
TWELFTH NIGHT or WHAT YOU WILL
"These clothes are good enough to drink in; and so be these boots too: an they be not, let them hang themselves in their own straps."--Toby
"The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen."--Feste
"Sir Toby will be sworn that I am no fox; but he will not pass his word for two pence that you are no fool."--Feste
"If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant."--Antonio
"Fate, show thy force: ourselves we do not owe; What is decreed must be, and be this so."--Olivia
"I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting on."--Malvolio
Malvolio in "yellow cross-gartered stockings"
"God have mercy upon one of our souls! He may have mercy upon mine; but my hope is better, and so look to thyself."--Aguecheek
"Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused: I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art"--Malvolio
"I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law in Illyria: though I struck him first, yet it's no matter for that."--Aguecheek
"Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends, I am abused"--Feste
TWELFTH NIGHT or WHAT YOU WILL
"Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul"--Orsino
Feste
"Art any more than a steward? Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"--Sir Toby
"Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit, do give thee five-fold blazon"--Olivia
"But, come what may, I do adore thee so, that danger shall seem sport, and I will go"--Antonio
"If this young gentleman Have done offence, I take the fault on me: If you offend him, I for him defy you."--Antonio
"This comes with seeking you: But there's no remedy; I shall answer it."--Antonio
"Love sought is good, but given unsought better."--Olivia
"You should then have accosted her; and with some excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should have banged the youth into dumbness."--Fabian
Malvolio in "yellow cross-gartered stockings"
Hat Choreography
"Madman, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness but ignorance"--Feste
"I am ready to distrust mine eyes and wrangle with my reason that persuades me to any other trust but that I am mad or else the lady's mad"--Sebastian
"Do not embrace me till each circumstance of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump that I am Viola"--Viola
Orsino, Viola/Sebastian, Olivia
"But that's all one, our play is done, and we'll strive to please you every day"
TWELFTH NIGHT or WHAT YOU WILL