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face=Georgia>For those keeping score, this is the seventh time that Great Lakes
Theater has presented “Twelfth Night, or What You Will,” which is one of
Shakespeare’s most popular comedies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Although the story is the same, as are many of the actors, the current
production could not be more different than the last time the play was seen on
the Hanna Theatre stage.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN>“Twelfth
Night” features a pair of fraternal twins – Sebastian </SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>(Jonathan
Christopher MacMillan) </SPAN><SPAN
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Viola </SPAN><SPAN
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Bissell) – who are</SPAN><SPAN
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separated by a shipwreck and carry on their lives thinking the other dead.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Landing on the coastal city of Illyria,
Viola disguises herself as a man for protection and to honor her brother,
calling herself Cesario.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>She
finds employment with Orsino </SPAN><SPAN
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Rivera Lebron),</SPAN><SPAN
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the Duke of Illyria, with whom she secretly falls in love.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Duke is in love with the Countess
Olivia </SPAN><SPAN
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Weber)</SPAN><SPAN
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and sends the cross-dressing Viola to woo her on his behalf.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The guarded Countess allows herself to
fall in love with the disguised Viola, but accidently beds and weds Sebastian
when he happens into town.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN>In line
with the driving subterfuge of gender duality, Shakespeare has given “Twelfth
Night” </SPAN><SPAN
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doses of both comedy and melancholy, as characters pursue what and who they
desire but cannot have.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN>In 2009,
under Charlie Fee’s direction, the Great Lakes production leaned heavily toward
the laughs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It did so by lightening
up Illyria with </SPAN><SPAN
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sensibilities and allowing the players to play broadly, boldly and in the spirit
of Feste’s line </SPAN><SPAN
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color=#181818>“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines
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face=Georgia>Under director Drew Barr’s creative vision, the play is remarkably
dark and restrained. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fully
embracing the notion of night referenced in the play’s title, everything in the
world of this production exists in evening’s shadows where the boundaries that
define period, place and persona are ambiguous or obscured.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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