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Theater - Twelfth Night

April 17–20 and May 10–11, 1985

A play by William Shakespeare
Music by George Gershwin
 
Production Staff
Directors: Michael Abbott '85, James Fisher
Scene and Light Designer: Brian R. Jones '82
Asst. Lighting Designer: Abbott Smith '85
Costume Designer: Laura Conners      
Stage Manager: David Schulz '88
 
Cast List
Orsino: Michael Shaw '87
Sebastian: John Wright
Antonio: Ralph Chacon '85
Sea Captain: Abbott Smith '85
Valentine: Chuck Grosvenor '87
Curio: Brian Farrar '85
Sir Toby Belch: Adam Crowe '85
Sir Andrew Aguecheek: Glen Leer '85
Malvolio: Brad Rickel '87
Fabian: Kyle Carr '85
Feste: Greg Hockemeyer '85
Olivia: Lee Ann Peabody Taggart
Viola: Lynne Jones
Maria: Linda Ostermeier
First Officer: Larry Alcorn
Second Officer: Alvin Schuh '88
Priest: Darrin Wallace '87
First Sailor: Mark Hayes '88
Second Sailor: Jon McGovern '87
 
Production Assistance
Master Electrician: Rick Burgett '88
Lightboard Operator: Mark Ratekin '88
Propsmaster: Dan Findley
Properties Assistant: David Woodward '87
Soundboard Operator: Tyce Light '87
Key Grip: Jim Kurtz '85
Graphics: Laura Conners
 
In Twelfth Night, or What You Will, Shakespeare completed a series of mature romantic comedies that include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and As You Like It. Twelfth Night  is a play of great charm and subtlety in which presumptuousness and indulgence temporarily threaten the joyous triumph of love. The play (featuring such immortal character as Malvolio, Sir Toby Belch, Sire Andrew Aguecheek, and the lovers of Orsino, Viola, Sebastian, and Olivia) explores Shakespeare's observations on human strengths and limitations and his consciousness of man's constant vulnerability to his own capriciousness. “If music be the food of love, play on…”

This page is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the theatre productions performed at Wabash College.  If you have information not included on this page, please contact the Theater Department or Professor Dwight Watson (watsond@wabash.edu).

  

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