Twelfth Night (14 Dec. 1992)

Directors:

Mariya Muat, Dave Edwards

Writers:

William Shakespeare (play), Leon Garfield (screenplay)

Stars:

Rosemary Leach, Fiona Shaw, Roger Allam

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Rosemary Leach	...	Narrator (voice)
Fiona Shaw	...	Viola (voice)
Roger Allam	...	Duke Orsino (voice)
Suzanne Burden	...	Olivia (voice)
Gerald James	...	Malvolio (voice)
William Rushton	...	Toby Belch (voice)
Stephen Tompkinson	...	Sir Andrew (voice)
Alice Arnold	...	Maria (voice)
Stefan Bednarczyk	...	Feste (voice)
Hugh Grant	...	Sebastian (voice)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

remake | comedy episode | romance episode | surrealism | shakespeare's twelfth night | 

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Details

Country:

Russia UK

Release Date:

14 December 1992 (UK)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Soyuzmultfilm, Christmas Films, Sianel 4 Cymru (S4C)

Did You Know?

Connections

Version of Viola and Sebastian (1972)

User Reviews

A perfect adaptation of Shakespeare's most perfect play.

Quite simply one of the best ever Shakespearean adaptations, because it achieves the near-impossible balance of comedy and melancholy that makes 'Twelfth Night' the favourite Shakespeare play of the discerning. More than either, 'Twelth night' makes tangible a feeling of longing, the exquisitely fine puppetry, the richly detailed mise-en-scene, the haunting Elizabethan pastiche score, all frame characters alone and desiring unrequited. this courtly anguish is satisfyingly countered by the cruel, physical humour of Toby and Aguecheeks' world, but even here, Malvolio's mirroring humiliation returns us to sadness.