Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Directed by Helen Tennison

JANUARY In Illyria, Duke Orsino is deeply in love with Tuesday 24, 8:00 pm Lady Olivia, who is in mourning for her recently deceased brother. To honour his memory, she Wednesday 25, 8:00 pm has sworn to live like a nun for seven years and refuses to receive any messages from Orsino. Earl Cameron Theatre, City Hall Meanwhile, Viola is washed ashore following a shipwreck in which she believes her twin brother, Sebastian, has drowned. Disguising herself as a young man, she enters the service of Duke Orsino and quickly finds her way into his Subtle and Intelligent direction... favour. Orsino sends her to woo the Countess Uniformly superb cast... Olivia, much against Viola’s will, for she has This show soars. fallen in love with the Duke herself. Upon - LIDER, Croatia meeting the eloquent messenger, Olivia falls for the “young man“, thus creating an amusing love Remarkable Production. triangle which produces several complications. - WIENER ZEITUNG, Austria Meanwhile, in the comic subplot, several characters conspire to make Olivia’s pompous steward, Malvolio, believe that the Countess is infatuated with him. The unexpected arrival Pacy and spirited. of Viola’s twin brother, Sebastian, adds further -DIE PRESSE, Austrial confusion at first, only to resolve the many entanglements into a happy matrimony at last.

A Shakespeare that sparkles. Illyria, the setting of Twelfth Night, is important -DER NEUE MERKER, Austria to the play’s romantic atmosphere. Illyria was an ancient region encompassing the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea which is modern day coast of Croatia. It included the city state of the Republic Fleet-footed and high-spirited. of Ragusa (Dubrovnik), which has been proposed -FALTER, Austria as the setting of the play.

The performance will run for 2 hours and 5 minutes with a 20 minute intermission.

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A Note from the Director

Twelfth Night is a comedy of mistaken identity, sense of limited time intensifies the characters’ social position and most of all love in all its yearning for a partner. The sense of completion rich variety. Love makes fools of the helpless by the “other” is reflected in our choreography, and passionate Illyrians. From the audience romantic and comical, a celebration of human we can relate only too well to the hilarity frailty. Ours is a world of fun, rebellion, and tragedy of unrequited love, and it is this naughtiness and a deep longing for that special that gives Twelfth Night its melancholy tone, other to love. A land of moonlight and water, enriching the humour of the play. It is a play where time is distorted by love’s impatience. about our need for attachments, found not The characters and their fates flow, buffeted by only in romantic love but exemplified in the the sea, their passions and their pride. But as non-romantic love at the base of the play, the sun sets, confusions are resolved and our the yearning for two siblings to reunite, to be heroes and heroines are united in true love. completed by their “other half”. It is also found in our need for community; Illyria is a world This show was originally created for outdoor where the unfortunate Malvolio, who tries to performance at Fort Lovrjenac in Dubrovnik, strike out alone from his position in society, is Croatia. This part of the coastline is believed severely punished. Add in a girl disguised as a to be within the ancient Kingdom of Illyria boy and you have the recipe for one of the most in which Twelfth Night is set. We’re very beautiful Shakespearian comedies. excited to be bringing Twelfth Night to Bermuda. This gorgeous setting on the I take La Belle Époque as the inspiration for our enchantingly beautiful island will bring its setting, that free bohemian lifestyle enjoyed by own special magic to the show. Twelfth Night: the bourgeois before the World War 1. Twelfth blissful, joyful, romantic, and cheekily lustful, Night was the last day of Christmas festivities, embracing with seasonal empathy the fools the final day on which the rules of the carnival we make of ourselves for love. can subvert the year’s natural order, and this

visit www.bermudafestival.org for more information Cast In order of appearance

Viola (Cesario) Helen Watkinson Sebastian/Valentine/Feste George Oliver Orsino Jason Eddy Curio/Sir Toby Belch/Priest James Burton Captain/Sir Andrew Aguecheek Tom Michael Blyth Olivia Helen Miller Maria Emma Fenney Malvolio/Antonio Filip Krenus

Director Helen Tennison Producer Filip Krenus Honey-tongued Theatre Productions, London Executive Producers Darija Mikulandra Jelena Maržić Brilliant Events, Dubrovnik Composer Benedict Davies Costume Designer Bryony J. Thompson Set Designer Marin Gozze Lighting Designer Aleksandar Mondecar Photographer Andy Barker Pre-production stills Midsummer Scene Festival Dubrovnik

Midsummer Scene is the only English Season 2017 will see the return of A theatre festival in Southeastern Europe and Midsummer Night’s Dream, with a brand in a relatively short period of time it has new version directed by Helen Tennison, established itself as a major cultural event, who has directed the Festival’s headline providing a platform for international concepts productions in the previous two seasons. The and collaborations. Festival will continue its collaboration with Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and mark The Festival coincides with the beginning of the 450th Anniversary of death of one of the summer, and in its first year, it opened at an greatest Renaissance comediographers of important milestone: the 450th Anniversary the Mediterranean: Marin Držić, the native of Shakespeare’s birth. Dubrovnik, the city playwright of Dubrovnik. The project entitled with one of the oldest traditions of open-air Discovering Držić will have its international site-specific theatre traditions in the world, tour, spreading the name of the great joined the international celebrations of this Croatian playwright. important year by staging one of the Bard’s most beloved comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Fort Lovrjenac or St. Lawrence Fortress, is part Dream, in Fort Lovrjenac, one of the world’s of the defensive system of the old Dubrovnik, most evocative and atmospheric venues. as it is located outside the western wall of the city. There is a Latin inscription on one of the The 2015 season brought Shakespeare’s stone walls of the fort: Twelfth Night, which proved to be a critically NON BENE PRO TOTO LIBERTAS acclaimed sell-out success both in Croatia and, VENDITUR AURO in 2016, in Vienna where it was remounted in Vienna’s English Theatre, the partner of (Freedom is not to be sold for all the treasures in the world) the Festival.

In 2016 we have celebrated another important anniversary – 400 years since Shakespeare’s death. Therefore, we have chosen his most famous play that holds a special significance for Dubrovnik: Hamlet. It was also the first time that the title role has been performed by a woman on a major stage in Southeastern Europe. BERMUDA FESTIVAL OF THE PERFORMING ARTS

About the Director Helen Tennison

As a freelance director, Helen’s recent work includes a site specific Helen’s work spans adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (Creation classics, new writing, Theatre), Hamlet (also for Midsummer Scene, site specific, devised Croatia), her own adaptation of Wuthering and physical theatre. Heights (Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre) She has worked across and Sense and Sensibility (National Tour). These the UK, Europe and works followed the success of Fay Weldon’s in the United States adaptation of Madame Bovary: Breakfast with for venues including Shakespeare’s Globe, Emma, directed by Helen for the Rosemary the Arcola, Southwark Playhouse, The Oxford Branch Theatre. Both Sense and Sensibility and Playhouse, Theatre Royal Winchester, Soho Madame Bovary were the subjects of multiple Theatre, and Women at RADA. Her productions Off West End Award nominations. of Shakespeare include Antony and Cleopatra (Creation Theatre), Love’s Labours Lost and A Helen has experience as a movement director Midsummer Night’s Dream (CSF), Hamlet, Measure and created numerous devised pieces whilst for Measure and The Tempest (The Rosemary Artistic Director of Barefeat Physical Theatre. Branch), and Titus Andronicus (The University She is committed to outreach theatre, leading of South Florida). Helen’s tenure as Artist in numerous projects whilst part of the community Residence at the University of South Florida saw theatre team at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre. the creation of the multi-media Ravens, a new She is currently Head of the Two Year Acting work with women, race and identity in American Course at Drama Studio London. history at its core.

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Thomas Michael Blyth

Theatre includes The Night Minack Theatre, The Trunk Space Arts Father West End & UK Centre, At Porlock Weir & Night of the Hellhound Tour, John Bull’s Other LOST Theatre, Antigone Cockpit, Much Ado Island Shaw’s Corner, About Nothing Courtyard, Macbeth The Scoop, Twelfth Night Vienna The Importance of Being Earnest Courtyard, English Theatre & Fort The Alchemist Hoxton Hall and The Changeling Lovrijenac, Cadfael: The Virgin In The Ice UK Tour, National Theatre Archive. The Duchess of Malfi New Diorama Theatre, More Dead Girls Theatre 503, The Significant His screen experience includes Jack The Giant Other Festival Tristan Bates, The Importance of Slayer, The Wing, Bloody Tales, Much Ado About Being Earnest UK Tour, Macbeth RSC Dell, Twelfth Nothing, Hamlet, Battersea.

James Burton

James trained at touring production of Sense and Sensibility for Mountview Academy, director Helen Tennison, Charles Bovary in Faye and St Mary’s Weldon’s Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma University College, (Rosemary Branch, National Tour), and Peer London. His theatre Gynt for the Ibsen Stage Company. He’s played credits include: Ben in The Dumb Waiter (LPC European Tour), Creation Theatre Company’s production of Alice Horner in The Country Wife (Courtyard Theatre, (in Oxford and Banbury), and Honey Tongued’s London), Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows Twelfth Night in Dubrovnik and Vienna. Also A (National Tour), American Haiku (Jermyn Street Christmas Carol for Creation Theatre Company Theatre, London), Mammon Inc. (Raffles Hotel at the North Wall in Oxford (Jacob Marley and Theatre, Singapore), and Macbeth and Measure The Ghost Of Christmas Present), and Anthony for Measure, for Jack Shepherd at the Arcola and Cleopatra (Pompey and Agrippa) also for Theatre, London. Creation. He’s played Colonel Brandon in a BERMUDA FESTIVAL OF THE PERFORMING ARTS

Jason Eddy

Jason is a native Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guildford of Bermuda. After Shakespeare Company); Breakfast with Emma, performing in Sense and Sensibility, The Tempest, Measure For numerous BMDS and Measure, Othello and Romeo and Juliet (Rosemary Gilbert & Sullivan Branch and tours); Blue/Purple (Tabard); and the productions at home, development of I Am at Sheffield Crucible. Jason trained at both the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York and the His screen experience includes Home; Forgotten Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Man; The Woman and the Machine; Beyond Wonderland; The McKennzies; Magnus Tucker; His theatre experience includes Twelfth Night Persona; and Wild Space, one of the winners of (Dubrovnik Midsummer Scene Festival & Magnum’s Pleasure is Following Your Heart Vienna’s English Theatre); Antony & Cleopatra short film competition with Vice magazine. (Shakespeare’s Globe); Beauty & the Beast and Operation Magic Carpet (Polka Theatre); The Tempest and The Odyssey (Teatro Vivo); Twelfth

Emma Fenney

Emma trained at Playhouse/ Tour), Inherit the Wind (Old Vic Drama Studio London. Theatre), Something Strange (Arcola Theatre), Her theatre credits Casanova (King’s Head Theatre), Jane Eyre include Hamlet (Fort (Brockley Jack Studio), Love’s Labour’s Lost Lovrijenac), Alice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Cambridge (Creation Theatre), Shakespeare Festival) and the Old Vic 24 Hour Twelfth Night (Fort Lovrijenac), Wuthering Plays (Old Vic Theatre). Emma also records Heights (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre/Tour), Paper audio books and dramas. Her titles include The Wings (Southwark Playhouse), Kicking and Power, Aim High in Creation!, The Separation, We’ll Screaming (Riverside Studios), In the Footsteps Always Have Paris, Abigale Hall, Exposure, Wylding of The Mitfords (Theatre Chipping Norton), Hall, Chaos of the Senses, Backpack and Six Sense and Sensibility (National Tour), Pinocchio Degrees of Assassination. (Luton Library Theatre), Fawlty Towers (Norwich

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Filip Krenus

Filip trained at East Honey-tongued Theatre Productions), The Right 15 Acting School (BA Ballerina (directed by Matthew Gould), School Acting) and Drama for Scandal (directed by Jessica Swale), The Centre (MA in Classical Winter’s Tale (LittleBIG Shakespeare, directed by European Acting). Titania Krimpas), King Lear and Dido, Queen of Carthage (Greenwich Theatre), Bent by Martin He set up Honey-tongued Theatre Productions Sherman (Landor Theatre/Tabard Theatre), in 2012 and produced Short Shrift Festival Orestes – Re-Examined (Southwark Playhouse), (RADA Studios) and Hedgehog’s Home – Peer Gynt (Riverside Studios), Hell Screen children’s musical (Tabernacle) and the LittleBIG (Oval House), Richard III and Macbeth (Faction Shakespeare touring workshop/performance Theatre Company), The Rivals (Camden People’s series for young audiences. In 2014 Filip was Theatre), Jane Eyre adapted by Polly Teale one of the co-creators of Midsummer Scene (Brockley Jack Theatre) and Shakespeare Inc. Festival. He has translated a wide range of (Rosemary Branch Theatre). plays from English into Croatian and vice versa and collaborated with many Croatian theatres. Films include Transmania and radio includes Gino Ginelli Lives (Wireless Theatre Company). His theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night and Hamlet (Midsummer www.honey-tongued.co.uk Scene Festival, which he also produced for BERMUDA FESTIVAL OF THE PERFORMING ARTS

Helen Millar

Helen trained at plays, Symposium, Spring, The Spies in Room 502 the Drama Centre. (The Old Vic), Love of the Nightingale, His Wild Winner of the Alan Imaginings (Rough Fiction), The Consultant, Slice Bates award for (Theatre 503), Thin Toes, The Bards of Bangkok most outstanding (Pleasance Theatre), Love is a Smoke, Soft newcomer. Theatre Armour (Theatre Delicatessen). includes: Being the first woman to play Hamlet in the South East of Europe for Midsummer TV includes: Houdini & Doyle, Casualty, Scene, Death and The Ploughman (Tobacco Eastenders, Holby City, Doctors, City Lights. Factory), Pericles, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Odyssey (Factory Theatre), Peter Pan, Dracula: Film includes: Chemical Wedding, The Brink, Dark The Kisses, In the Footsteps of the Mitford’s, Rage, The Evening Was Long, Flash, Removed, The Stage Rights (Scary Little Girls), 21 Breaths Rise and The Fall of the Krays. (Park Theatre), Pygmalion (Garrick Theatre), Macbeth (Broadway Theatre), Breakfast with Helen is also Co-Artistic director of Rough Emma, Heartbreak House, She Stoops To Conquer, Fiction and a member of The Factory Theatre. Arcadia (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), 24 hour

George Oliver

George lives in Film work includes The Fall of the Krays, My London and trained Brother the Devil, Prowl, Cropped and SoulBoy. at East 15 Acting School. He played Television work includes Being Human (BBC Dorian Gray in A Three), Mrs Biggs (ITV) and Dani’s House (ITV). Picture on Tour for Vienna’s English Theatre in 2013. Recent In 2016 George established The Shakespeare credits include Feste/Sebastian in Twelfth Garden Project with Studio Cultivate, a series Night and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream of theatrical garden-based workshops for for Honey-Tongued Theatre in Dubrovnik and young people that explore Shakespeare’s plays Liam in A Plan of Action for Quorum Theatre from the point of view of their plants, potions in France. and poisons.

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Helen Watkinson

Helen trained at The Theatre), Wuthering Heights (Yvonne Arnaud Drama Centre London, Theatre, Guildford), Chloe Can (Lyric Theatre), The Boris Shchukin Shakespeare As You (Might) Like It (Rosemary Theatre Institute Branch Theatre), Most People Are Other People (Moscow), and with the (Tristan Bates Theatre) and London 2012 National Youth Theatre. Olympics Team Welcome Ceremonies (National Youth Theatre). Theatre includes: Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet (Young Shakespeare Company), The Merchant of Venice Film: Blue Hollywood (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company/ Questors Television: Stonehenge Empire (BBC) Theatre), Black Lives Black Words (The Bush

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