Founder's Briefs

- Notes from Karl Sikkenga -

Twelfth Night

Oohhhh, what fun! It works as a holiday show for sure, right around Epiphany. We put Sir Toby Belch (a mean drunk, not a lovable one) in an ill-fitting Santa suit; Viola and Sebastian in matching ugly Christmas sweaters; Feste as an elf in curly-pointed shoes. All of Shakespeare’s plays are structured in five acts. When I asked the kids what happens in Act VI, one of them wrote, ‘They just keep pranking Malvolio over and over again until the end of time.’