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2000-2001
by William Shakespeare
Directed Audrey Coldron
Starring
Production by Stage II of DeLand,
Florida & The Storybook Theater Company of DeLand, Florida
Public
Performances on //
Spring
Tour to Middle School and High Schools
All
Public Performances at Sands Theater Center of the Cultural Arts Center in DeLand, Florida (Click
for Map)
William Shakespeare composed Twelfth Night; or What You Will in either 1600 or 1601 as the last
of his three "mature comedies" (the other two being Much Ado About
Nothing and As You Like It). Like his early comedies, The Comedy
of Errors or The Taming of the Shrew for instance, Twelfth Night
is essentially a celebration of romantic love and can be
viewed as a traditional romantic comedy. The play has many of the
elements common to Elizabethan romantic comedy, including the devices of
mistaken identity, separated twins, and gender-crossing disguise, and its plot
revolves around overcoming obstacles to "true" love. And, like other
representatives of the genre, Twelfth Night also features a subplot in which a
self-inflated "sour" or "blocking" character, the steward Malvolio, is brought to his knees through a trick
orchestrated by a ribald if also self-inflated character in the person of Sir
Toby Belch. But
unlike his early comedies, Shakespeare also strikes some discordant notes in Twelfth
Night, including a conception of love and other themes that are not part of
the conventional romantic comedy formula. Thus, for example, the subject of
insanity surfaces as a salient theme and as a force within the plot. Indeed,
while Twelfth Night concludes with tandem weddings, Shakespeare also
speaks about the madness of love.
Rumplestiltskin
Original Retelling by
Darlene J. Lentz with Music by Timothy D. Turner
Directed by Darlene J. Lentz
Tour Production by Storybook Theater Company of DeLand, Florida
Public
Performances on @ 2:30 p.m. // On
Tour January – May 2005
All
Public Performances at Sands Theater Center of the Cultural Arts Center in DeLand, Florida (Click
for Map)
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