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unusual facts about Twelfth Night, or What You Will



Albert Schultz

Schultz directed Soulpepper's productions of Death of a Salesman, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Oh What a Lovely War, The Caretaker, Waiting for Godot, No Man's Land, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Time of Your Life and Angels in America, Parts I and II.

Alison Whyte

She has also worked in theatre, with stage roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing.

Angus L. Bowmer

The Works Progress Administration helped construct a makeshift Elizabethan stage on the Chautauqua site and Bowmer, college students, teachers, and Ashland citizens mounted two plays, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, for three performances.

Beatrice Straight

Most of her theatre work was in the classics, including Twelfth Night (1941), Macbeth, and The Crucible (1953), for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

Ben Carpenter

In the same year at Chichester he played Sebastian in Twelfth Night directed by Philip Franks and starring Patrick Stewart.

Cakes and Ale

Maugham drew his title from the remark of Sir Toby Belch to Malvolio in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" Cakes and ale are the emblems of the good life in the tagline to the fable attributed to Aesop, "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse": "Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear".

Coventry Blue Coat Church of England School

An all-female cast of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed by Andrew Kyle, was shown on the 20th and the 22nd of October 2011.

Denise Black

Black appeared in 1991 on TV as Carrie Evans in Shoscombe Old Place, episode 60 of ITV's and WGBH, Boston's The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and on stage as Goneril in Shakespeare's King Lear, toured in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with the Cambridge Touring Company - and gave birth to a daughter, Dandy.

Franky Fitzgerald

In "Grace", Franky is playing the part of Viola/Cesario in Grace's production of Twelfth Night.

Grace Blood

Grace is upset, and persuades him to compromise, and he agrees to let her stay at Roundview if she gets good marks in her AS Theatre Studies exam, a production of Twelfth Night.

Hazel Treweek

From 1981-83 she undertook an acting course at the Ensemble Studios in North Sydney, culminating in her directing a production of Twelfth Night.

Ian Gallanar

He has directed a number of productions with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lysistrata, The Front Page, As You Like It, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night and many others.

Jan Waters

Waters continued to make periodic stage and television appearance in the late 1970s, most notably portraying Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Portia in Twelfth Night in tours of the UK and the Far East with the Palace Theatre Company, Watford, Hertfordshire.

Judy GeBauer

After graduation, she appeared as Octavia in Antony and Cleopatra at Marin Shakespeare Festival, in productions of Twelfth Night (Viola), King Lear, Richard III (Jane Shore), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mustardseed) at California Shakespeare Festival.

She toured for two years with the National Shakespeare Company out of New York, during which time she played Kate in She Stoops to Conquer, Jocasta in Oedipus Rex, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet.

Kalsoy

In old Faroese folklore it was believed that on Twelfth Night the seals came out of the sea, stripped off their seal-skins and became human beings, dancing on the shore.

Kirsten Holly Smith

In addition to Forever Dusty, Smith has appeared on stage in numerous plays including Of Mice and Men, Three Sisters and Twelfth Night as well as several independent films including the lead role in Isle of Lesbos.

Lanhydrock

Lanhydrock was the main setting for a 1996 film version of Twelfth Night directed by Trevor Nunn, and starring Helena Bonham Carter as Olivia.

Liv Malone

In "Grace", Liv notices Franky and Matty's tense interaction while rehearsing for Grace's production of Twelfth Night, and puts two and two together.

London Court

The Fayre featured volunteers dressed in Elizabethan style costumes and included evening dramatic programmes and musical items, including excerpts from Twelfth Night, madrigals and folk singing.

Lori Rom

Her other work besides television include a December 1998 run in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night as Viola at The Kresge Foundation, and a 2006 Neosporin commercial.

Merry company

Paintings showing specific celebrations such as weddings or the festivities for Twelfth Night, the main mid-winter celebration in the Netherlands, or the playing of specific games, are likely to have titles relating to these where the subject is still clear.

Mini McGuinness

A paper about female friendships in the British teen drama series Skins is probably the last thing anyone would expect to find on a conference panel about ‘Renaissance and Early Modern Independent Women.’ However, the penultimate episode of series five plays quite deliberately upon the parallels between the characters’ romantic entanglements and those of the Shakespearean counterparts they portray in a college production of Twelfth Night.

MyAnna Buring

Also in 2006, Buring played Olivia in a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Exeter's Northcott Theatre Company, alongside Sara Weymouth and David Gwillim, and appeared in a new play, Seduced, by Michael Kingsbury at London's Finborough Theatre.

Norman Ayrton

He went on to direct his first production in the United States in 1967 with Twelfth Night in Dallas, Texas.

Public holidays in Sweden

There are also de facto half-day holidays (with some variation depending on employer): Twelfth Night, Maundy Thursday, Walpurgis Night, the day before Ascension Day and the day before All Saints's Day.

Robert O. Cornthwaite

Robert O. Cornthwaite (April 28, 1917 – July 20, 2006) was an American film and television character actor who began his acting career in 1937, appearing in a college production of Twelfth Night, while attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

SING*ularity

Deriving its title from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - "put thyself into the trick of singularity" - SING*ularity portrays the unique training approach of OperaWorks, an intense training program in Northridge, California for opera singers founded by Ann Baltz in which the entire body is engaged.

Tim Choate

He also performed at the Los Angeles Shakespeare Fest in Twelfth Night and Merry Wives of Windsor as well as in the Los Angeles production of Beyond Therapy.

Wassail

At Carhampton, near Minehead, the Apple Orchard Wassailing is held on the Old Twelfth Night (6 January) as a ritual to ask God for a good apple harvest.


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