Much like its new Romeo and Juliet, Stratford’s Twelfth Night comes with a frame, and in some ways, a more logical one. “If music be the food of love play on” is the Duke Orsino’s famous opening line, and Martha Henry’s production gives him music plus words. His bemused exuberance when Olivia outright proposes to him, having mistaken him for his sister, is one of the evening’s highlights. Olivia begins the play in ostentatious mourning for her own dead brother then snaps speedily out of it. Twelfth Night is in repertory through October 21 at Festival Theatre in Stratford.

Source: National Post June 06, 2017 20:03 UTC