Twelfth Night

Scene:
Maria: No, madam, he does nothing but smile! Your ladyship were best to have some guard about you, if you come. For sure the man is tainted in his wits!

Michelle Felten: The plot of Twelfth Night involves the characters Viola  and Sebastian who are identical twins. They get shipwrecked to a foreign land to them called Alaria.

Tygar Hicks: I play Viola and Cesario. I play Viola, Viola plays Cesario.
Scene: Indeed, so much me thought her eyes had lost her tongue for she did speak in starts, distractedly.

Tygar:  Viola is… I would describe her as an ever hopeful, ever loving person. You know, she gets thrown all of these different obstacles and through it all she just maintains and perseveres with her hope and her love. She’s one o f the most selfless characters, I think, Shakespeare ever wrote.
Scene: My state is desperate for my master’s love.

Scene:
Malvolio(sp): This sweet, Roman hand. Mmmhhm.

Olivia: Will thou go to bed, Malvolio! 

Mayette Villanueva: I play Maria, and she is Olivia the Countess’, her handmaid. And she’s really smart. I feel like she’s probably one of the more wittier characters in the play. She’s actually the only character who successfully changes her social status by the end of the play.

Scene:
Maria: How do you Malvolio (sp)? Why appear you with this ridiculous boldness before my lady?
Felten: There’s romance. There’s genuine moments of pathos and passion. Some wonderful, wonderful languages – of course, you’ll find in all of Shakespeare’s plays.

Mayette: There’s a lot of language research involved in this. A lot more than a contemporary play would involve. So, we had to look up every word that was in our script to make sure we knew exactly what it meant, because if we didn’t know what it meant than the audience wouldn’t know what it means.

Scene:
Malvolio: If it please the eye of one: please one and please all.
Viola: I left no ring with her!

Tygar: I have to make a firm distinction between Viola and Cesario.

Scene:
Viola: I am the man!
Tygar: So I have to make choices that are male, traditionally male and traditionally female. Posture: standing straight or slouching down, not jutting my hip out, keeping my pelvis straight ahead, straight forward.

Scene: Viola: How will this (Inaudible) ? My master loves her dearly.
Tygar: I’m still getting used to wearing a mustache. Every now and then I check it just to make sure it’s there.

Scene: Voiceover: It’s a quote, unquote comedy. People think it has to be laughs a hundred percent of the time, but there are real deep, serious characters in this play and that’s what I love about it. Because there’s an element of surprise within that you know that you’ve entertained the audience and then you shock them and touch them at the same time.