Twelfth Night Review
The twelfth night
4/3/2019
Yale Repertory Theater, directed by Carl Cofield
Abubakr Ali (Sir Andrew Aguecheek)
Erron Crawford (Feste)
William DeMerrit (Orsino)
Allen Gilmore (Malvolio)
Tiffany Denise Hobbs (Olivia)
Moses Ingram (Viola),
Manu Kumasi (Antonio)
Chivs Micheal (Sir Toby)
Ilia Isorelys Paulino (Maria)
Sebastian and Viola are twins and they were separated by a maritime accident. Viola then follows the duke who is called Orsino and dresses as a young man. Orsino has the idea that Viola should tell Olivia his ask of proposing. However, at that time, Viola has fallen in love with Duke Orsino. Furthermore, Olivia falls in love with Viola at first sight. Meanwhile, a plot is going on at Olivia's house. Her uncle Toby and others take revenge to the butler Malvolio as a result of his arrogance. In imitation of Olivia's handwriting, they wrote a love letter to Malvolio, encouraging him to make bold advances and telling him to always wear yellow stockings. Malvolio believed that and truly wore the ugly yellow stockings while Olivia thinks that Malvolio must be crazy. Duke Orsino sends Viola to Olivia's lobby again but it enhanced Olivia's love for Viola. Olivia's uncle was determined to marry Andrew, so he and Olivia's maid Maria strongly encouraged Andrew and viola having a duel. The elder brother Sebastian was saved by captain Antonio, and then two people became solid friends. In Illyria, captain Antonio was afraid of the local authorities so he couldn't live with Sebastian. However, Captain Antonio recognized Viola as Sebastian and went to help him with the duel. The passing police recognized Antonio and caught him. Andrew and others also wanted to find viola's duel, but they met Sebastian, recognizing him as Viola. Luckily it was stopped by the coming Viola. Malvolio was declared insane and put into a dark room. Finally, Sebastian and Viola live together; Sebastian and Olivia love each other. Duke Orsino was moved by Viola's appearance, announced to marry her.
In the beginning, everybody is attracted by the front projection on the stage. Clearly I had no idea about how is it related to the theme of this play but I really had an extraordinary experience and felt what is called Afrofuturism. Even though the stage was brilliant enough, I was not immersed in that feeling with the background music. In my opinion, the stage's width limited its visual performance. The color, in the beginning, included plenty of colors while the color in the following scenes is mostly warm-toned. In Orsino or Olivia's lobby, the color was keeping in the range of orange and brown, to show the nobility. The color in the darkroom was blue and dark, to show the ruthless action. Costumes are rational, according to everyone's current social status. I wasn't overwhelmed too much by the background music in each scene, since the dialogues are too loud, too frequent to feel the music or it didn't depict the theme of the current scene. I loved the lighting of the play. Except for the last scene, I found that the light was always dim and comfortable, not sharp.
I like Allen Gilmore the most, to act a comical character is always not an easy thing to do. In this play, especially having the effect of yellow stockings, he was almost at the point of repetition. I saw they exaggerate how do stockings affect this character's impression to audiences and this element was throughout the whole play. I was really afraid of seeing too much repetition on one thing. Overall, they didn't cross the border. I like this play, and the style of Shakespeare is reduced in this play, including the Afrofuturism, the style they sang and talked really brought me to the personal style of the director. I believed he enhanced the visual effects of this play and decreased the literary atmosphere based on this script. Audiences had a grand visual Carnival.
4/3/2019
Yale Repertory Theater, directed by Carl Cofield
Abubakr Ali (Sir Andrew Aguecheek)
Erron Crawford (Feste)
William DeMerrit (Orsino)
Allen Gilmore (Malvolio)
Tiffany Denise Hobbs (Olivia)
Moses Ingram (Viola),
Manu Kumasi (Antonio)
Chivs Micheal (Sir Toby)
Ilia Isorelys Paulino (Maria)
Sebastian and Viola are twins and they were separated by a maritime accident. Viola then follows the duke who is called Orsino and dresses as a young man. Orsino has the idea that Viola should tell Olivia his ask of proposing. However, at that time, Viola has fallen in love with Duke Orsino. Furthermore, Olivia falls in love with Viola at first sight. Meanwhile, a plot is going on at Olivia's house. Her uncle Toby and others take revenge to the butler Malvolio as a result of his arrogance. In imitation of Olivia's handwriting, they wrote a love letter to Malvolio, encouraging him to make bold advances and telling him to always wear yellow stockings. Malvolio believed that and truly wore the ugly yellow stockings while Olivia thinks that Malvolio must be crazy. Duke Orsino sends Viola to Olivia's lobby again but it enhanced Olivia's love for Viola. Olivia's uncle was determined to marry Andrew, so he and Olivia's maid Maria strongly encouraged Andrew and viola having a duel. The elder brother Sebastian was saved by captain Antonio, and then two people became solid friends. In Illyria, captain Antonio was afraid of the local authorities so he couldn't live with Sebastian. However, Captain Antonio recognized Viola as Sebastian and went to help him with the duel. The passing police recognized Antonio and caught him. Andrew and others also wanted to find viola's duel, but they met Sebastian, recognizing him as Viola. Luckily it was stopped by the coming Viola. Malvolio was declared insane and put into a dark room. Finally, Sebastian and Viola live together; Sebastian and Olivia love each other. Duke Orsino was moved by Viola's appearance, announced to marry her.
In the beginning, everybody is attracted by the front projection on the stage. Clearly I had no idea about how is it related to the theme of this play but I really had an extraordinary experience and felt what is called Afrofuturism. Even though the stage was brilliant enough, I was not immersed in that feeling with the background music. In my opinion, the stage's width limited its visual performance. The color, in the beginning, included plenty of colors while the color in the following scenes is mostly warm-toned. In Orsino or Olivia's lobby, the color was keeping in the range of orange and brown, to show the nobility. The color in the darkroom was blue and dark, to show the ruthless action. Costumes are rational, according to everyone's current social status. I wasn't overwhelmed too much by the background music in each scene, since the dialogues are too loud, too frequent to feel the music or it didn't depict the theme of the current scene. I loved the lighting of the play. Except for the last scene, I found that the light was always dim and comfortable, not sharp.
I like Allen Gilmore the most, to act a comical character is always not an easy thing to do. In this play, especially having the effect of yellow stockings, he was almost at the point of repetition. I saw they exaggerate how do stockings affect this character's impression to audiences and this element was throughout the whole play. I was really afraid of seeing too much repetition on one thing. Overall, they didn't cross the border. I like this play, and the style of Shakespeare is reduced in this play, including the Afrofuturism, the style they sang and talked really brought me to the personal style of the director. I believed he enhanced the visual effects of this play and decreased the literary atmosphere based on this script. Audiences had a grand visual Carnival.
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