Shakespeare BASH'd Closes the Season with an All-Star TWELFTH NIGHT

Artistic Director James Wallis, fresh off a season at the Stratford Festival (Assistant Director: Macbeth and Bunny), re-imagines this boisterous comedy in the Roaring Twenties, inspired by Parisian style and culture, and set to original music by composer Franziska Beeler. Jazz, dancing, poetry, and speakeasies make the perfect backdrop for the re-invention of this classic story.

Twelfth Night boasts an all-star cast that features some of the city's best young Shakespeareans. Now in her third season with Shakespeare BASH'd, Jade Douris (Shakespeare by the Sea Halifax, Theatre Aquarius) takes on the role of Viola, the young noblewoman who adopts a new identity after a tragic shipwreck, opposite Hallie Seline (The Howland Company, Shannon 10:40, BASH'd: Romeo & Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth) as Lady Olivia, who mistakenly falls in love with her. Daniel Briere (Stratford Festival, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Storefront Theatre) plays the hilarious Sir Toby Belch, alongside Jesse Griffiths (Shakespeare in the Ruff, Theatre Orangeville, St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival), who returns to the BASH'd stage to don the yellow stockings and cross-garters of the puritanical Malvolio.

Rounding out this stacked cast are Dora-nominated actor and BASH'd company veteran Jeff Yung (Comfort, Monday Nights, fuGEN Theatre, YPT) as Sebastian, Jesse Nerenberg (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, Repercussion Theatre) as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Julia Nish-Lapidus (Storefront Theatre, Shakespeare BASH'd) as Maria, Shawn Ahmed (Tarragon Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Orphan Black, Max and Shred, Saw VI) as Duke Orsino, and Lesley Robertson (Shakespeare in the Ruff, Storefront Theatre, Theatre by the Bay) as Feste.

Twelfth Night, presented by Shakespeare BASH'd, is packed with some of the city's best young talent, as well as brimming with the spirit, passion, and music of the 1920s. You won't want to miss this fresh staging of Shakespeare's classic comedy.

Showtimes:

Tuesday, January 31 - 7:30pm

Wednesday, February 1 - 7:30pm

Thursday, February 2 - 7:30pm

Friday, February 3 - 7:30pm

Saturday, February 4 - 2:00pm

Saturday, February 4 - 7:30pm

Sunday, February 5 - 2:00pm

Tickets:

$19 online at www.shakespearebashd.com

$20 at the door