REVIEW: Twelfth Night (Forth Act)
Twelfth Night - ★★★☆☆ - Droll
Saughton Park: Wed 25 – Sat 28 June 2025
Review by Rebecca Mahar
Review by Rebecca Mahar
Review commissioned by, and originally published on All Edinburgh Theatre, 26 June 2025. Edited by Thom Dibdin.
The Forth Act return to Saughton Park with another helping of outdoor Shakespeare, transporting the Illyria of Twelfth Night to a beach town in the summer of 1967.
One of Shakespeare’s enduring comedies of mistaken identity, Twelfth Nightcentres around the story of Viola (Rhona O’Donnell), shipwrecked off the coast of Illyria.
Believing that her identical twin brother Sebastian (Scott Adair-Grabas) has perished in the wreck, and with no means at her disposal, Viola assumes the male identity of Cesario, and takes up a place as a servant in the household of Duke Orsino (Finlay Allan).
Cosette Bolt and Rhona O'Donnell. Pic: Andrew Morris Photography.
Orsino is attempting to court the noblewoman Olivia (Cosette Bolt), who is entirely uninterested — in him, at least; when "Cesario" arrives to please the Duke's case, Olivia falls for him immediately. Of course.
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