'Burgh Vivant: On the distant shore of Illyria, our heroine, Viola (Carly Street) escapes a shipwreck. The fierce storm that capsized her boat may have drown her brother Sebastian (Max Rosenak). Now, in a new land, Viola decides to disguise herself as a man to protect herself. Her actions set a comedy of errors in motion in William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”
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I've really enjoyed everything I've seen at the Public and have long loved Twelfth Night, so I was happy to see a kind review before I spend my money on a ticket. However, this review of Twelfth Night was, in my opinion, a little too much of a summary. Half the article was spent recapping the plot of the show, with little mention to the musical motifs, lighting or sound, the Public's 1910's take, etc. Buzzeli focused most of his review on the actors' performances. He believes Carly Street, playing the heroine Viola, didn't pass enough as a man. Part of me wonders, how much does this matter? Twelfth Night is clearly a comedy with the love triangle, jester, drunken friends cliches- is it part of the joke that Street is still obviously a woman? Or is the suspension of disbelief too disrupted when Orcino and Olivia fall for Viola's guise? I'm eager to see how this all feels on stage and how the design complements the story.
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