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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...
Viola’s 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...
...other performances were also strong, with Emily van Waning Galvin ’04 as Viola and Caroline T. Koo ’04 as Olivia being particularly notable. Gavin plays Viola as a young boy with a touching weepy eyed presence and Koo handles the dramatic changes in her characters disposition with great comedic flair...
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...
JORDI SAVALL AND HESPÈRION XXI. The critically acclaimed early music group will be performing 15th and 16th century songs from the Iberian Peninsula this Friday at Cambridge’s First Church on Garden Street. The group, led by Barcelona-born viola da gamba player Jordi Savall, focuses on the pre-1800 Iberian and European musical tradition and their re-interpretation and resurrection. Their latest albums Diàspora Sefardí and El Cancionero de Montecassino received Grammy nominations in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Friday, April 4 at 8 p.m. First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge...