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Twelfth Night - Shakespeare at the Towers
This summer award-winning theatre company Shakespeare at the Towers takes to the stage at Buckden Towers in Huntingdonshire for the first time, after performing at The George Hotel in Huntingdon since 1959.
The first production at Buckden Towers is Twelfth Night, one of Shakespeare’s great romantic comedies, believed to have been written at the turn of the 17th century as an entertainment to mark the end of the Christmas season.
Twelfth Night follows the destiny of poor Olivia, whose normally well-ordered life has been turned upside down, and suddenly she’s in a world of smoke and mirrors. Feste, her Fool, keeps tripping her up with his perverse wit, her roistering uncle Sir Toby and his hapless friend Sir Andrew are turning the place into a drunken dive and her gentlewoman Maria is egging them on. Her puritanical steward Malvolio has developed the weird notion that she’s in love with him, and is wearing the most outrageous clothes . . . and Count Orsino, who keeps pestering her to marry him, has sent a new and devastatingly attractive young man to woo her on his behalf.
Are all the people mad But this is Illyria, lady – a place in which nothing is what it seems and no one is who you thought they were. How will this resolve itself
The open-air season of Twelfth Night, directed by Chris Avery, will be performed in the wonderful backdrop of The Queen Katherine Knot Garden at Buckden Towers from Tuesday 24th June to Saturday 5th July (excluding Sunday 29th June) and is generously sponsored by Wintringham, St Neots.
There will be a Stagetext captioned performance on Tuesday 1st July which enables us to welcome our patrons who have lost, or are losing their hearing to an accessible show, thanks to support from our caption sponsor The Evelyn Glennie Foundation. We will also host a Touch Tour before the performance on Monday 30th June bringing the experience to life for blind and partially sighted theatre fans.
The first production at Buckden Towers is Twelfth Night, one of Shakespeare’s great romantic comedies, believed to have been written at the turn of the 17th century as an entertainment to mark the end of the Christmas season.
Twelfth Night follows the destiny of poor Olivia, whose normally well-ordered life has been turned upside down, and suddenly she’s in a world of smoke and mirrors. Feste, her Fool, keeps tripping her up with his perverse wit, her roistering uncle Sir Toby and his hapless friend Sir Andrew are turning the place into a drunken dive and her gentlewoman Maria is egging them on. Her puritanical steward Malvolio has developed the weird notion that she’s in love with him, and is wearing the most outrageous clothes . . . and Count Orsino, who keeps pestering her to marry him, has sent a new and devastatingly attractive young man to woo her on his behalf.
Are all the people mad But this is Illyria, lady – a place in which nothing is what it seems and no one is who you thought they were. How will this resolve itself
The open-air season of Twelfth Night, directed by Chris Avery, will be performed in the wonderful backdrop of The Queen Katherine Knot Garden at Buckden Towers from Tuesday 24th June to Saturday 5th July (excluding Sunday 29th June) and is generously sponsored by Wintringham, St Neots.
There will be a Stagetext captioned performance on Tuesday 1st July which enables us to welcome our patrons who have lost, or are losing their hearing to an accessible show, thanks to support from our caption sponsor The Evelyn Glennie Foundation. We will also host a Touch Tour before the performance on Monday 30th June bringing the experience to life for blind and partially sighted theatre fans.
Tue 24 Jun to Sat 28 Jun, Mon 30 Jun to Sun 6 Jul
Buckden Towers, High St, Buckden, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire PE19 5TA
Evening performances run 7.30pm - 10.00pm with a matinee on Saturday 28th June starting at 2.00pm. Prices start at £16.00 (+ booking fee) for adults to £13.00 (+ booking fee) for children.
Tickets available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/satt
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