Twelfth Night

SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 23, 2022

"Present mirth hath present laughter."
—Twelfth Night

We kick off our year-long anniversary celebration by revisiting our inaugural presentation of Twelfth Night with the original director, Founding Artistic Director Ian Gallanar, at the helm. The 2022 anniversary production will feature a cast of many CSC company favorites, including: Gregory Burgess, Ron Heneghan, and Lizzi Albert as Viola.

Shipwrecked in a strange land, Viola disguises herself as a man, and is recruited by Duke Orsino to woo Lady Olivia on his behalf. It's only a matter of time before she finds herself trapped in an unusual love triangle. Full of charming characters and one of his most captivating heroines, Twelfth Night is Shakespeare's most perfect comedy.

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Cast and Crew

The Cast (Listed alphabetically)
Lizzi Albert** – Viola
Tyrel Brown – Valentine/officer
Gregory Burgess** – Sir Toby
Ian Charles** – Sebastian
Kathryne Daniels** – Maria
Jose Guzman** – Sir Andrew
David Hanauer– Sea Captain
George Michael Harris+ – Feste
Oz Heiligman – Antonio
Ron Heneghan**+ – Malvolio
Jade Jones – Lady in Waiting
Laura Malkus – Fabian
Elana Michelle** – Olivia
Grant Scherini – Curio/officer
Quincy Vicks** – Orsino

**CSC Company Member
+ Member of Actors Equity

The Creative Team
Lesley Malin** - Producing Executive Director
Ian Gallanar** - Director
Sarah Curnoles** - Production Manager
Alexis E. Davis** - Stage Manager
Bernard Johnson - Assistant Director
Dan O'Brien - Technical Director
Tim Jones - Set Designer
Jason Aufdem-Brinke - Lighting Designer
Kristina Lambdin** - Costume Designer
Grace Srinivasan** - Music Director
Kaydin Hamby - Sound Designer
Trey Wise - Props Designer
Lauren Engler** – Choreographer
Emily Erickson – Vocal and Text Coach, Co-music Director
Christopher Niebling – Fights and Intimacy Choreographer
Eva Hill - Assistant Stage Manager
Hannah Brill - Wardrobe Supervisor
Jen Katz - Lighting Designer Assistant
Mallory Shear - Assistant Fight and Intimacy Choreographer
Ellie Skoda - Backstage understudy

**CSC Company Member

Twelfth Night Synopsis

Orsino, the Duke of lllyria, is in love with the Countess Olivia. She repeatedly rejects him as she has sworn to avoid men's company for seven years while she mourns the death of her brother. Nearby a young woman, Viola, has survived a shipwreck in a storm at sea but has lost her twin brother in the storm. Vulnerable as a woman in a strange land. Viola chooses to dress as a boy and get work as a page to the Duke Orsino.

Unwilling to accept Olivia’s rebuffs, Orsino sends his new page Cesario (Viola in disguise) to woo Olivia on his behalf. Viola goes unwillingly as she has already fallen in love with the duke. Olivia is attracted to the 'boy' and sends her pompous steward, Malvolio, after Cesario with a ring.

Causing foolishness and trouble are other members of Olivia’s household: her rowdy drunken kinsman, Sir Toby Belch; his foolish friend, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, who is trying in his hopeless way to court Olivia; Olivia’s witty and pretty waiting-gentlewoman, Maria; Feste, the clever clown of the house. When Sir Toby and the others take offense at Malvolio’s constant efforts to spoil their fun, Maria engineers a practical joke to make Malvolio think that Olivia is in love with him.

Meanwhile, Viola's twin brother, Sebastian, who has also survived the shipwreck, comes to Illyria. His beloved friend, Antonio, a wanted man for piracy against Orsino, follows him there, despite a danger of arrest. The resemblance between Cesario and Sebastian leads the jealous Sir Andrew to challenge Sebastian to a duel thinking he is Cesario. Mayhem breaks loose as the twins are continually confused for one another, Antonio is arrested, Malvolio wears yellow stockings, and Olivia decides to get married.

Community Events

What Country, Friends is This? – A talk with Professor Henry Schvey of Washington University in St. Louis.

Date: October 2, 2022

Time: 1:00pm

Location: The Middendorf lounge located on the first mezzanine of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Theatre, 7 S Calvert St, Baltimore, MD 21202

What country, friends, is this?
Twelfth Night's indistinct setting is the fictional country of Illyria. Professor Schvey will explore this world in which gender, status, love and even reality itself are represented kaleidoscopically as a hall of mirrors.

How Will This Fadge? Creating Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night on Stage – A Director’s Talk

Date: October 16, 2022

Time: 1:00pm

Location: The Middendorf lounge located on the first mezzanine of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Theatre, 7 S Calvert St, Baltimore, MD 21202

Join us before the show as we sit down with Director, Ian Gallanar to discuss his relationship to the play and discoveries made while reflecting on his past direction of our inaugural 2002 production of Twelfth Night.

If Music be the Food of Love – A tour through the many of arrangements of the music of Twelfth Night.

Date: October 22, 2022

Time: 1:00pm

Location: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Theatre, 7 S Calvert St, Baltimore, MD 21202

Join us 'Twelfth Night' Music Director, Grace Srinivasan and accompanist, Patrick Merrill treat us to a live pre-show concert featuring songs from the production.

And What’s Her History? – A 2002 Twelfth Night team reunion