Twelfth Night
Hudson Shakespeare
Company
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Michael Hagins
Kicking off the outdoor touring season with a summer twist is another Shakespeare mistaken identity piece with a cross dressing theme. Twelfth Night follows a shipwrecked heroine named Viola into the exotic and STRANGE land of Ilyria. Disguising herself as a man and gaining employment with the local  love sick Duke, Viola embroils herself with a drunken band of beach combers, a stiff upper lip would be suitor with a strange fashion sense, a love struck women whose interested in her and a nerdy guy who wants to pick a fight, well sort of...as she searches for her long lost brother.









































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Show Dates:

Monday, June 16, 7PM, Shipyard Park, Hoboken, NJ
Tuesday, June 17, 7PM, Monument Park, Fort Lee, NJ
Wednesday, June 18, 7:30PM, Staib Park, Hackensack, NJ
Thursday, June 19, 8PM, Ellsworth Park, Union City, NJ
Saturday, June 21, 7:30PM Pearl Studios, 500 8th Avenue, 4th Floor, Studio 410, New York City, NY
(Admission $15 adults/$10 Seniors and Students
Monday, June 23, 7PM, Sinatra Park, Hoboken, NJ
Tuesday, June 24, 7PM, Monument Park, Fort Lee, NJ
Wednesday, June 25, 7:30PM, Staib Park, Hackensack, NJ
Thursday, June 26, 7:30PM,
David Brearly High School football field, Kenilworth, NJ
Saturday, June 28, 2PM Stratford Library, Stratford, CT
Monday, June 30, 7PM, Sinatra Park, Hoboken, NJ
Tuesday, July 1, 7PM, Monument Park, Fort Lee, NJ


























Cast
Catherine Leong Viola
Jon Ciccarelli       Duke Orsino
Cait Johnson               Olivia
Tony White         Sir Toby Belch
Brian Hegarty    Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Samantha Hancock   Maria
P.J. Brennan        Sebastian
Alicia Fitzgerald Antonia
Kevin Spencer    Malvolio
Susannah McLeod     Feste
SharOn Halevy  Fabian
Rebecca Overholt       Curio


























































































To see other 2008 show Pages: The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, King John, Julius Caesar

To view past seasons click the Past Shows tab on the left navigation bar
Publicity still of our beach themed production of "Twelfth Night". Toby Belch (Tony White, center) drunkenly plots revenge against their stick in the mud enemy Malvolio with his cohorts Maria (Samantha Hancock, left) and Fabian (SharOn Halevy).
Opening scene of a shipwrecked Viola (Catherine Leong)

Olivia (Cait Johnson, right) drills her gentlewomen Fabian (SharOn Halevy) and Maria (Samantha Hancock) in on how to handle another visit from a representative of the love sick Duke Orsino.

Maria (Samantha Hancock) sparks up a plan with her cohorts Toby (Tony White) and Aguecheek (Brian Hegarty) to dupe the stuck up Malvolio into believing the lady Olivia is in love with him.
Toby Belch (Tony White, left), Fabian (SharOn Halevy) and Aguecheek (Brian Hegarty) disguise themselves as shrubbery as they listen an unsuspecting Malvolio (Kevin Spencer)
Viola's twin brother Sebastian (P.J. Brennan) tries to make his way to Illyria while pursed by his resucuer, the enamoured Antonia (Alicia Fitzgerald)
Viola (Catherine Leong), disguised as a man, receives a ring from the Lady Olivia and suspects that she has romantic interests in her.