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Twelfth Night at the Royal Shakespeare Company, April 2012
| April 14, 2012 | Posted by Emma French under culture, reviews |
In the year of the London 2012 Olympics, much stress is being placed on Britain’s multicultural heritage and international standing, and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) World Shakespeare Festival is in accordance with this trend. Throughout 2012 many international productions will be made in celebration of the world-renowned playwright, with the RSC contributing twelve new productions of their own. The first of this exploration of internationalism was What Country, Friends, Is This?, a trilogy of Shakespeare’s ‘Shipwrecked’ plays: A Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night – all performed by the same company, rehearsed simultaneously, and all using the same stage. As the season’s title is Viola’s first words of the play in which she is protagonist, it seemed… more
