TWELFTH NIGHT

Tickets are $40.50 ( $38.00 + $2.50 handling fee). This theater is small so please get the money to me quickly. Please payment to my PayPal account (Friend's and Family option), [email protected], or to my Venmo account, @Debra-Florio-1. If you are using Venmo, do not use "Turn on for purchases". This charges me a fee. These tickets just went on sale and they are selling fast. Please pay when you sign up. I want to buy the tickets in the next week. Thank you. William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a brilliant exploration of the masks we wear and the people we choose to love. The story begins with a literal and metaphorical upheaval: a shipwreck that strands the resourceful Viola on a foreign shore. Believing her twin brother lost to the sea, she adopts a male disguise for protection, inadvertently setting off a chain reaction of romantic chaos. The play thrives on a “merry war” of social classes and temperaments. While the noble characters languish in the poetic agonies of unrequited love, the household staff and hangers-on engage in a riotous subplot of pranks and revelry. Shakespeare masterfully balances these two worlds — one sophisticated and sighing, the other crude and vengeful — to show that folly is a universal human trait regardless of rank. What makes Twelfth Night endure is its bittersweet edge. It is a world where identity is fluid, gender is a costume, and the line between a joke and cruelty is razor-thin. It invites the audience to laugh at the absurdity of the human heart while acknowledging that, even in a comedy, “the rain it raineth every day.”