By William Shakespeare
Directed by David H. Bell
Set Design by Marcus Stephens
Costume Design by Richard E. Donnelly
Lighting Design by Kevin Dreyer
Music Direction and Composition by Daniel Green
Sound Design by Robert Steele
Don't miss your chance to be a part of the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival's 10th Anniversary season. See one of Shakespeare's greatest comedies, Twelfth Night as internationally renowned director David H. Bell whisks you off to turn-of-the-century Russia for ravishing romance, side-splitting humor, and some of the most famous characters ever to grace the stage.
Shipwrecked twins set this tale of unlikely love and mistaken identity in bittersweet motion. Viola, separated from her brother Sebastian and now alone in the world, disguises herself as a servant boy and falls hopelessly in love with the duke she serves. But the duke pursues Countess Olivia whose adoring gaze falls on the duke's new page -- Viola dressed as a boy!
Bell says this of his vision for the production, "This is a world where an embrace of the illusion of love overpowers the thing itself, and romantic fixations encourage the characters to all sorts extreme comic excess. Populated by unreasoning romantics, driven mad by the illusion of love - Twelfth Night is a glittering world of fools."
Will Duke Orsino win Olivia's hand? Will Viola reveal her true identity? What's happened to the long-lost Sebastian? The answers will delight you an all-star cast from New York, Stratford and Chicago take to the Decio Mainstage in this most delicious of midsummer comedies! Two weeks only!
Decio Mainstage Theatre
Stick around after the show and join in a 30-minute question and answer session with director David H. Bell and the cast of Twelfth Night.
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Raise a glass to celebrate our founder and our 10th season while indulging in a sumptuous buffet and live entertainment.
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Notre Dame Gender Studies Professor Pamela Robertson Wojcik leads a pre-show discussion on gender and identity with Producing Artistic Director Jay Paul Skelton. Pre-show event is free and open to the public.
Thursday, January 21, 2010, at 7:00 pm
Friday, January 22, 2010, at 7:00 pm
Saturday, January 23, 2010, at 7:30 pm
World Premiere! Commissioned by the University of Notre Dame, the "RFK Project" chronicles Robert F. Kennedy's transformation from discomfort with and indifference towards the Civil Rights Movement to a champion and crusader. [ more ]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010, at 7:30 pm
Thursday, January 28, 2010, at 7:30 pm
Friday, January 29, 2010, at 7:30 pm
In fair Verona, two long-feuding families tend a tenuous truce. As tensions simmer, Romeo Montague's thoughts turn from the scornful Rosaline to the lovely young Juliet Capulet, daughter of his father's enemy. [ more ]
Thursday, February 11, 2010, at 7:00 pm
Friday, February 12, 2010, at 7:00 pm
Saturday, February 13, 2010, at 7:30 pm
On May 17, 1968, nine men and women entered the Selective Service Offices in Catonsville, Maryland, removed several hundred draft records, and burned them with homemade napalm in protest against the war in Vietnam. "GO!... an impassioned argument for following the dictates of one's conscience." - LA Weekly [ more ]
The Ticket Office will be closed Thanksgiving week, Monday, November 23 through Sunday, November 29. It will reopen on Monday, November 30 at 12 pm. Ticket purchases are still available at any time online. [ more ]
Trio's and the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center have created a fantastic package that includes dinner at Trio's and tickets to the Stefon Harris & Blackout or Dianne Reeves performances. [ more ]
