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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.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian , who are separated in a shipwreck.
Orsino is the Duke of Illyria, loved by Viola but in love with Olivia, in Twelfth Night. Osric is a courtier, treated with contempt by Hamlet in Hamlet. Oswald is a servant of Gonerill, most noted for getting into fights and losing them, in King Lear. Othello is the title character of Othello. A Moorish general in the Venetian army, he is ...
"Twelfth Night" opens for previews April 11 and 12, and will have its official opening at 8 p.m. April 13 with a preshow party at 6 p.m. The production will have 13 public performances and three ...
In 2010–2011, she played Viola in a production of Twelfth Night at London's National Theatre, directed by her father. [ 49 ] Hall made her Broadway debut in 2013 in Sophie Treadwell 's expressionist play Machinal .
Fabian is a servant to Olivia, and one of the conspirators against Malvolio, in Twelfth Night. A Fairy flirts with Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Sir John Falstaff (fict, but see Sir John Oldcastle and Sir John Fastolfe) is a central character of Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. In the Henry plays, he is ...
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.
She made her professional theatre debut in 1956 playing Viola in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Oxford Playhouse. She made her Broadway debut in musical revue New Faces of 1956 (1956). Smith excelled in both comedy and drama performing in various works of Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Noël Coward, Edward Albee and Tom Stoppard.