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Twelfth Night (or What You Will)
A comedy of misrule and a trenchant attack on puritanism as disguise and deceit leads to misadventure, madness and mistaken love in one of Shakespeare’s happiest plays. Orsino loves Olivia but she loves Cesario who really does love Orsino for Cesario is actually Viola. But Malvolio believes his mistress Olivia loves him as he is a victim of a trick played on him by those who would make him mad. Shakespeare unravels a comic knot and fashions a masterpiece.
Romeo and Juliet
In a town full of hatred, where the streets ring with the Capulet Montague feud, and swords are too easily drawn, Romeo and Juliet find each other, and love, and never let go.
The Tempest
Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place, using illusion and skilful manipulation. A tempest brings Prospero’s brother Antonio and Alonso, King of Naples to the island. Once there, Ariel and Prospero’s machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio’s evil cunning, the redemption of Alonso, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso’s son, Ferdinand.