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Episode 1: Twelfth Night

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Shakespeare's comedy of disguise, madness and love, with David Tennant as Malvolio.

or What You Will,
by William Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's comedy of disguise, madness and love, starring David Tennant as Malvolio. 

A comedy of misrule and a trenchant attack on puritanism as disguise and deceit leads to misadventure, madness and mistaken love in one of Shakespeare's happiest plays. Orsino loves Olivia but she loves Cesario who really does love Orsino for Cesario is actually Viola. But Malvolio believes his mistress Olivia loves him as he is a victim of a trick played on him by those who would make him mad. Shakespeare unravels a comic knot and fashions a masterpiece.

Viola/Cesario ..... Naomi Frederick.
Sebastian ..... Trystan Gravelle.
Sea Captain ..... Gerard McDermott.
Orsino ..... Paul Ready.
Valentine ..... Harry Livingstone.
Maria ..... Rosie Cavaliero.
Sir Toby Belch ..... Ron Cook.
Sir Andrew Aguecheek ..... Adam James.
Olivia ..... Vanessa Kirby.
Feste ..... James Lailey.
Malvolio .... David Tennant.
Fabian ..... Don Gilet.
Antonio ..... Peter Hamilton Dyer.

Music composed by Roger Goula.
Directed by Sally Avens.

First broadcast in April 2012.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Radio 3 explores Shakespeare through 21st-century productions of some of his key works

New productions of key works by Shakespeare. With Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet performed by one cast, The Tempest in an island 'full of noises', and a Midsummer Night's Dream in a Sussex wood

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