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Viola Hastings is a teen girl who plays for the girls soccer team at her high school, Cornwall Prep. Her dream is to play for the North Carolina Tar Heels. However, the team gets cut. Viola and her friends try to join the boys' team, but the coach refuses.
Elizabeth Hand's novella Illyria features a high school production of Twelfth Night, containing many references to the play, especially Feste's song. The 2006 romantic comedy She's the Man is loosely based on Twelfth Night. One of Club Penguin ' s plays, Twelfth Fish, is a spoof of Shakespeare's works. It is a story about a countess, a jester ...
Viola's actions produce all of the play's momentum. She is a young woman of Messaline. In the beginning, Viola is found shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria and separated from her twin brother, not knowing whether he is alive or dead, the Sea Captain tells her that this place is ruled by the Duke Orsino, who is in love with Countess Olivia.
During a storm at sea, a shipwreck separates twin siblings Viola and Sebastian. Viola lands in the country of Illyria, and later, her brother arrives there as well. Viola, meeting Duke Orsino, falls in love with him. To stay close to her beloved, she disguises herself as a man and takes the name Cesario to enter his service.
Illyria is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Peter Mills, based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, written in 2002. [4] Illyria is a traditional adaptation of Twelfth Night, but features a more contemporary score. [5] [6] Illyria began as Prospect Theater Company's musical production of Twelfth Night in Central Park in 2001. [7]
Sebastian is the twin brother of Viola.After the beginning of the play, Viola mentions that her brother Sebastian is drowned in the sea. [1]The next appearance of Sebastian denies this, as he has been rescued by Antonio, a sea captain who looks after Sebastian at some risk to himself.
Duke Orsino is a man with high romantic imagination and is a melancholy lover. He finds himself becoming more and more fond of his new page boy, Cesario (Viola in disguise), the daughter of a nobleman who knew Duke Orsino. Viola falls in love with Orsino, despite continuing to plead his case to Olivia.
The show is set in the present (late 1960s) in the land of Illyria, which looks very much like New York City. It is a tale of separated twins, mistaken identities, love triangles and "doing your own thing". It opens when a raging storm wrecks the ship on which a rock duet is traveling. They are "identical" twenty-year-old twins, Viola and ...