Actors from the London Stage to perform ‘Twelfth Night’

Saturday, October 19, 2019
Featuring players Kaffe Keating, Al Barclay, Katherine Newman, Claire Redcliffe and Jonathan Oliver, Actors from the London Stage will bring Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” to DePauw University on Wednesday, Oct. 23 as part of a weeklong residency at the university.
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On Wednesday, October 23, the DePauw Performing Arts Series will present the acclaimed Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS) performing William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at 7:30 p.m. in Moore Theatre of the University’s Green Center for the Performing Arts.

The five-member troupe of British actors has prepared a stripped-down, text-centered version of Shakespeare’s well-known romantic comedy of mistaken identity.

The central character, Viola, must disguise herself as a young man to woo the finicky Olivia on behalf of the melancholy Duke Orsino, whom Viola secretly admires. Complicating matters, Viola’s twin brother Sebastian, who is thought to have drowned at sea but has miraculously survived, appears later in the play and helps resolve the complicated but comical story.

The AFTLS company traditionally has performed a Shakespearean play at DePauw every other year for more than two decades, and last performed “Twelfth Night” in 2005. This Performing Arts Series event, funded in part by the Gilbert S. Lance fund and co-sponsored by the department of English and the department of communication and theater, is free and open to the public.

Doors will open at 7 p.m. for the 7:30 performance.

Wednesday’s performance of “Twelfth Night: is part of a weeklong residency at DePauw by the Actors From The London Stage, during which time the five actors will visit more than a dozen DePauw classes and hold a free workshop on acting for Putnam County middle school and high school students -- including members of the casts of last summer’s Putnam County Playhouse Shakespeare Camp production of “Twelfth Night.”

The workshop will take place early Saturday afternoon, beginning at 1 p.m. in the acting studio of the Green Center for the Performing Arts. The workshop is open to Greencastle and Putnam County middle and high school students as well as DePauw students.

Registration for the Saturday workshop is encouraged but not required.

To register for the free Saturday workshop or for more information about any of the AFTLS residency activities, contact Ron Dye at rdye@depauw.edu or 658-4689.

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