Word: twelfths
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STRATFORD, Conn.--It is not often that sets and costumes merit the first and highest praise in a Shakespearean production, but the current Twelfth Night on view at stratford is certainly one instance. The dramatist laid the play in Illyris near the Adriatic coast; but the locale is of no particular import, and Will Steven Armstrong decided to make this romantic comedy a little more exotic by pushing it into a Near East such as Elizaebthans might have envisioned...
...still have hopes of seeing a wholly satisfactory production of Twelfth Night before I die. Shakespeare had to go through the experience of writing the highly flawed Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It just before he was able to fashion Twelfth Night, the last of his pure comedies and the only one that arguably achieves perfection. Our Stratfordians have to date offered two highly flawed productions of this priceless play; perhaps they too will be able to approach perfection on the third...
This year's show does not, however, serve the car as well as it serves the eye -- either in its actual music or its word-music. The performers generally acquit themselves with moderate success, but not much more. Twelfth Nights is an ensemble show; no one or two players can make or break it, for these are no truly starring roles...
...past few years the American Shakespeare Festival has presented the first, second, and fourth play in the tetralogy. This year it has opened its twelfth season by turning to the third and least often performed. But, despite the highly commendable Falstaff of Jerome Kilty, the gap is not really being filled: there is too much directorial and thespian ineptitude surrounding the fat knight...
...Note: Henry IV, Part Two will run in repertory with Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, and T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral through September 11. Reviews of the Festival's other three productions will appear in the next issues. The drive to the picturesque Stratford grounds by the Housatonic takes under three hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, the Route 91 bypass and either Exit 53 from the Merritt Parkway or Exit 32 from the Connecticut Turnpike. Performances tend to begin promptly at the designated hour. There are free outdoor facilities for picnickers.) final scene, when Falstaff appears with a saffron...