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Festival Shakespeare Company bring Twelfth Night to St Ann’s Well Gardens

William Shakespeare’s classic comedy Twelfth Night comes to the 2012 Brighton Festival, courtesy of the Festival Shakespeare Company. With: shipwrecks; twins; cross-dressing; songs; drunks; pranks; mistaken identity; love letters and love lost and found it promises to be a rollicking good night of open-air fun.

FSC’s fourth open-air Shakespeare is set in the pre-war Western Isles Think: Whisky Galore; Hitchcock; Powell and Pressburger; oilskins; tweeds; golf and gumboots and you’ll know where they’re going.

This company previously produced five star productions of
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, described by 3 Weeks as having ‘exemplary acting’ and Much Ado About Nothing declared by Plays International as having ‘clarity, spontaneity and just the right amount of bawdiness – ticked every box’.

Once again Festival goers are invited to bring their blankets, hampers and hip flasks to a company that Fringe Guru says delivers ‘superlative performance that would rank high on a list of best outdoor Shakespeare ever’. This will take place in the delightful setting of the walled scented garden at St Ann’s Well Gardens.

This year’s production is directed by Nicholas Quirke, designed by Peta Taylor and has in its cast Doug Devaney, Jenny Rowe, Joanna Rosenfeld and Kitty Newbury.

The Scented Garden, St Ann’s Well Gardens, Hove
Thur 10–Sun 13, Wed 16–Fri 18, Sun 20, Wed 23–Sun 27 May, £10/8
Tickets 01273 917272,
www.brightonfringe.org
www.festivalshakespeare.co.uk