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While there’s not much to do with the character, Oatey does an excellent job stepping in and out of her dual roles. Gamboa’s choice of casting a woman in the role of Sebastian is an interesting one and only one of the few places the production actually emphasizes the subtexts of cross-dressing and homoeroticism...
It’s a good thing too, since the story tells the highly improbable tale of twins Viola and Sebastian who both survive a shipwreck that lands them in mythical Illyria. Both assume, on the accounts of their rescuers, that the other has perished in the accident. Viola is introduced to the audience first and inexplicably decides to dress as a man and become the Duke’s employee...
...main task is to help the Duke woo the widow Olivia—which wouldn’t be a problem except that Viola falls in love the Duke and Olivia falls in love with Viola in her male garb. Things get all the more confusing when Sebastian, who looks just like the disguised Viola arrives on the scene...
...with her commanding portrayal of the wench Maria. Oatey’s Maria is playful and clever, sassy and smart and always commands the stage even when she’s just in the background reacting with bemused facial expressions. The actress does double duty, as she also plays Sebastian...
TWELFTH NIGHT. The Quincy House Drama Society presents Shakespeare’s most gender-bending farce this weekend. In this tale of drowning and deception, two twins, Viola and Sebastian, take center stage after a shipwreck leaves them separated from each other on a foreign island. The only work of Shakespeare with an alternate title—Or What You Will—the romance abounds with questions of identity and self-determination. Feste the Clown, among other characters, provide wonderful comic relief in a play that is predominantly concerned with philosophical questions. Through Saturday, April...