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Twelfth Night
Opens: 19/12/2009 Closes: 20/02/2010
Duke of York's Theatre, London
After his well-received October debut as Malvolio, award-winning actor Richard Wilson returns to London's West End with the RSC to present Shakespeare's dark comedy of mistaken identity and jovial merriment. The revival of this tale is made both punchy and accessible by the talents of director Gregory Doran.
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this is london“It’s a stop-start evening...” Wilson should be dream casting as Malvolio, the snitty steward who is tricked into thinking that his mistress Olivia has the hots for him, but isn’t. He fails to pounce upon this peach of a role...
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Financial Times“The relationship between Olivia and the disguised Viola is beautifully done” Richard Wilson’s Malvolio, while he wrings humour out of his dyspeptic delivery, cuts a deeply dejected spectacle as he realises how his hopes of love have been exploited. But while the shadows emerge, the comedy fares less well...
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The Times“Wilson is what Shakespeare surely wanted: funny and not funny at all...” There are so many good things in the production it seems ungrateful to complain that it sometimes succumbs to RSC vices that are also virtues. It’s too eager to find subtleties in the lines and the situation and so becomes too leisurely...
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Guardian“Picturesque, pleasant and popular...” The Levantine setting deprives the comedy of some of its deeply English social precision. Much as I enjoyed Wilson's poker-backed Malvolio, he is so anxious to shed the Victor Meldrew stereotype that he makes the aged steward seem almost endearing...
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