This arresting production opens with the shipwrecked Viola in a modern hospital bed and a car and motor bike coming on stage with Orsino's entourage. The whole complex story with Viola pretending to be a boy, named Cesario, was relatively easy to follow. However, the casting of a woman (Tamsin Greig) as Malvolio rather jarred for me - maybe because I had read synopses describing 'her' as a man. Likewise the fool, Feste was slightly hard to get used to as a woman.
Nonetheless, it was a great evening that won the delighted applause of the packed audience.
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