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...arches, encircling men and women in evening dress with cinematic light. The leaves cast soft shadows over a tuxedoed pianist as he plays dinner music. A pair of "identical" twins wanders confusedly in the garden among those they love and those who love them. This is Illyria, setting of Twelfth Night and one of the prettiest never-never lands Shakespeare ever created, translated with intelligence and sensitivity to a strangely Hollywood-esque Loeb mainstage...
...Twelfth Night...
...whoever didn't notice, back when the schedules were composed, this weekend is not exactly the time to launch daring theatrical experiments, like mounting two simultaneous productions of Twelfth Night at the Loeb. Or, for that matter, to continue daring theatrical experiments, like the completely rewritten and updated version of Hair at the Forum, slated to conclude its two-weekend...
...folks who thought two simultaneous productions of Twelfth Night would be an educational experience for all involved haven't changed their minds. But some of them have broader definitions of "educational" these days after six weeks of mixups and overlaps between Sam Samuels' production, entering its final weekend at the mainstage, and Paul Warner's rendition, going up Thursday night...
Meanwhile, Warner's cast and crew have been concocting a production which will highlight love's fears, pains, and isolation. Wandering through Shakespeare's disguises and wordplays, these Twelfth-Nighters will don more aod more masks, not shed them, in a bright mirrored "cabaret" set designed to emphasize their loneliness...