{"id":2562,"date":"2015-07-09T12:38:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2023-07-07T18:42:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T21:42:46","slug":"twelfe-night-or-what-you-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2562","title":{"rendered":"Twelfe Night, or what you will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>I was very confused watching Ale House Theatre\u2019s production of Twelfe Night, Or What You Will, which plays as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival through July 12th, 2015 because I am unsure why this group of performers are tackling Shakespeare at all. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">On their website Ale House Theatre states that part of their mandate is as follows, \u201ccan an audience laugh or be moved without understanding Elizabethan culture, fashion, language, and tastes? \u2026.ya.\u201d They state that they are attempting to stage these productions using Original Practices, yet we are inside, women are playing women, the audience is seated and silent, so it\u2019s clear that giant contemporary liberties are being taken with that concept. The biggest challenge this production faces, is that in trying to make Shakespeare funny for those who don\u2019t understand Elizabethan culture, fashion or language, the concept seems to be to ensure that the actors don\u2019t understand these things either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">A truly skilled actor performing Shakespeare, whether dressed in the play\u2019s historically accurate clothes, in Elizabethan dress, or in blue jeans, whether at the Globe Theatre, in the park or at the pub, whether the play is set as Shakespeare set it or in Outer space in the future, the actor is able to communicate Shakespeare\u2019s language to the audience. Even if a joke is an obscure Elizabethan reference, a skilled actor knows how to translate, a skilled actor knows how to make Shakespeare\u2019s text easy to understand. In this production of <em>Twelfe Night<\/em> the actors recite the words of Shakespeare, without infusing them with much beyond false, \u201cI\u2019m acting!\u201d voices, and the comedy is all silly business that often doesn\u2019t correlate with the words at all, lacquered on top, like someone dubbing the wrong words over a movie. Perhaps the false voices are an attempt to recreate the way Elizabethan actors may have spoke, but they were outside in vast theatres talking over rowdy peasants seducing prostitutes and needing to be understood by the upper classes in the boxes very far away from them. We are at the St. Vladimir Institute so close the actors are nearly tripping over us. It\u2019s also worthy of note that Shakespeare and his actors were using the most contemporary acting style known and wearing the contemporary clothes of their day\u2026 so in that way the best way to replicate Shakespeare using \u201cOriginal Practices\u201d is to do the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Arguably the most impressive and revered aspect of a William Shakespeare play is his use of language; if a theatre company is going to deliberately disregard it, I wonder what the point is of them performing Shakespeare at all?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TWISI FRINGE RATING:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/5_Star_Rating_System_3_stars2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/5_Star_Rating_System_3_stars2.png\" alt=\"5_Star_Rating_System_3_stars\" width=\"140\" height=\"25\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Twelfe Night, or what you will<\/em> plays at the St. Vladimir Institute (620 Spadina Avenue) as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/fringetoronto.com\">Toronto Fringe Festival<\/a>\u00a0at the following times:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>show times<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>July 09 at 07:00 PM \u00a0<a class=\"button small\" href=\"https:\/\/tff.tickets.red61.com\/listprices.php?performanceId=1066:1811\">buy tickets<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>July 12 at 04:30 PM \u00a0<a class=\"button small\" href=\"https:\/\/tff.tickets.red61.com\/listprices.php?performanceId=1066:1812\">buy tickets<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very confused watching Ale House Theatre\u2019s production of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4671],"tags":[4786,4730,3747,4245,3310],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-ale-house-theatre","tag-st-vladimir-institute","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-fringe","tag-william-shakespeare"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Twelfe Night, or what you will - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; 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