Word: orsino
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...begins when fraternal twins Viola (Catherine P. Walleck ’06) and Sebastian (Daniel D. Castro ’06) are shipwrecked in Illyria, each believing the other is dead. The story follows Viola as she dons the guise of a boy and joins the court of Orsino (Fernando Berdion-Del Valle ’08), the local Duke with whom she falls in love. Unfortunately, Orsino is madly in love with Olivia (Anastasia Artemyev ’08), to whom he sends his new page to woo on his behalf...
...flagging production was clearly held together by three performances: Olivia (Tegan Shohet '01), Orsino (Tim Jezek '01) and, of course, Viola (Lisa Faiman '03). Even of these, only Faiman was completely at ease within the alternate world of Illyria. Shohet makes us believe that she could be a wonderful Olivia-in a different production-and Jezek, though truly engaging in his scenes with Faiman, ran a little to the whiny side of the Dukedom. Uche Amaechi, playing Olivia's kinsman, Sir Toby, possesses an amazing voice and stage presence, yet seemed wrong for the role of the scheming drunkard. Little...
...main characters are musicians and musical agents for the purpose of fitting in songs, but music fails to be the full-bodied theme it is in Twelfth Night. Viola's name is, after all, a pun on the name of the musical instrument, and Twelfth Night opens with Orsino's well-known declamation: "If music be the food of love, play on." A disembodied voice delivers this famous line at the beginning of Your Own Thing, then punctures the effect by adding, "I can't remember if that's Marvell or Bacon." Well, rendered thus, it certainly isn't Shakespeare...
...this is not a professional cast. Although a few actors--Nick Raposo (Cenci), Jim Marino (Orsino) and Schuerman--make noble attempts to salvage the performance, most others have difficulty escaping the tendency to recite rather than act their lines...
...this context, Feste, the punning, cynical clown becomes Frank Sinatra, leaning on the plano with a drink, entertaining the nobility but keeping his distance. James Goldstein as Orsino, the duke who pines for the love of Olivia (Gaye Williams), is a Casablanca Bogart, white dinner jacket and all. The allusion makes his slow transition to lovesick goon particularly hilarious when he takes to staring soulfully into space, smoking cigarettes from a gold case and obliviously blowing clouds of smoke into the face of Viola (Caroline Isenberg), who, from under her disguise as his servant, gazes just as wistfully...