Twelfth Night Plays Southwest Shakespeare Company 11/27

Southwest Shakespeare Company to kick off the festive holiday season with the opening of Twelfth Night on Nov. 27 in Mesa.

Twelfth Night: A deliciously dark comedy of mistaken identities and misdirected passions, Twelfth Night offers a touchingly human celebration of delights and agonies of love, pride and merriment. Lovers and misfits, clowns and gentry collide in an entertaining cocktail of comic confusion. The vain and authoritarian Malvolio has commanded that there "shall be no more cakes and ale," but he is taken in when a plot is hatched to fool him into thinking the lady of the house is in love with him. "With hey, ho, the wind and the rain," join us in Illyria for a holiday version of this most romantic of Shakespeare's comedies!

Twelfth Night is produced by Southwest Shakespeare Company, previewing Nov. 27, 2010, and the show runs Nov. 27 - Dec. 18, 2010, at the Farnsworth Studio Theater, Mesa Arts Center, One East Main Street, Mesa (Center and Main Street; half-mile east of Country Club Drive). Performances are Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with additional performances / matinees: Sat, Dec. 4, 11 and 18 at 2 p.m. and Sun, Nov. 28, Dec. 5, and 12 at 3 p.m.

Ticket prices: Adults - $33.50; Seniors/Students w/ID - $25; Children - $12.50; Matinees - $25; Student Rush with ID - $12.50. Call the Box Office at 480-644-6500. Four-Show Subscriptions, Three-Show "Flex" Series Premium,. Group rates at 480-641-7039.

Twelfth Night is believed to have been written around 1601 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play is thought to engage the holiday festivities and merry spirit consisting of drinking, dancing and general self indulgence.

Director Jared Sakren says, " "If you want a romantic, funny, and very, very festive evening in the theatre there will be no better place to find it than at TWELFTH NIGHT. Under two hours of non-stop merry-making and tomfoolery, this will be SSC's heartfelt Holiday Present to our audiences."

Educators: Contact Susan Alston at 480-830-8673 or salston@swshakespeare.org to reserve space at Student Matinees. For in-classroom workshops, previews and post-show discussions, contact Education Outreach Director Dawn Tucker at 610-301-2233 or education@swshakespeare.org.

Southwest Shakespeare Company (SSC) is kicking off its 16th season. SSC was co-founded in 1994 by two educators and actors, Kevin Dressler and Randy Messersmith. The 2005-06 season opened at the new Mesa Arts Center (MAC), located in downtown Mesa. Under Jared Sakren's leadership as artistic director, SSC expanded its season and performed a total of five shows in two of its four theaters, the 550-seat Virginia G. Piper Repertory Theater and the 99-seat Anita Cox Farnsworth Studio Theater. SSC mounted a six show season in 2006-07, performing in yet a third theater at the "MAC," the Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse Theater. SSC serves to create professional theatrical productions, which will entertain, educate, inspire and elevate the general public and educational communities of Arizona, designed to make classical literature understandable and appreciated by all patrons.

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