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Cross-dressing, Confusion and Comedy in "Twelfth Night"

February 16, 2006 at 12:10 pm

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The Carleton Players will perform William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" at 8:00 p.m. on February 17-18 and February 24-25 in the Carleton College Arena Theater. Filled with secret identities, gender-warping disguises, and misbegotten love affairs, "Twelfth Night" is considered by many to be the Bard at his comedic finest.

Director Ruth Weiner, the Class of 1944 Professor of Theater and Liberal Arts, offered a sneak preview for the Shout camera. In these excerpts from dress rehearsal, we see Orsino (Martin Miller) and his would-be love Viola (Mindy Garner), who is disguised as a boy; in another scene, Viola inadvertently woos the fair Olivia (Telsche Thiessen) while delivering the news that Viola's master, Orsino, loves her.

View the scenes in rehearsal (QuickTime).

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