Premiere | William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, or What You Will
PREMIERE
Dubrovnik Summer Festival and Zagreb Youth Theatre
William Shakespeare: TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL
Subtitled in English
Director: Grzegorz Jarzyna
Dramaturge: Roman Pawlowski
Set designers: Grzegorz Jarzyna i Aleksandr Prowalinski
Costume designer: Anna Axer Fijalkowska
Light designers: Marino Frankola i Aleksandr Prowalinski
Video: Ivan Marušić-Klif
Stage movement: Šimun Stankov
Assistant Director: Patrik Sečen
Assistant costume designer: Marta Žegura
Translator and subtitle editor: Mirna Herman
Stage manager: Petra Prša
Olivia: Dado Ćosić
Orsino: Anđela Ramljak
Viola/Sebastian: Mia Melcher
Malvolio: Katarina Bistrović Darvaš
Feste: Petra Svrtan
Sir Toby Belch: Doris Šarić Kukuljica
Sir Andrew Aguecheek: Barbara Prpić
Maria: Mateo Videk
The maid: Toma Medvešek
Twelfth Night staged by Grzegorz Jarzyna is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous comedies read from the perspective of gender roles and identities of non-binary persons. In Jarzyna’s interpretation, the Renaissance comedy becomes a modernist piece about fluid sexual identities fighting for their right to exist in an old, patriarchal world. In order to survive, the protagonists engage in a risky game based on power and desire.
As Olivia, one of the protagonists, says, love is like a plague that strikes people unexpectedly, making them vulnerable. It cannot be satisfied nor requited. Between the lines of poetic love confessions lies a drama of those who are searching for a language to express their hidden self. Twelfth Night speaks about gender roles and their effect on human relationships. What is sexuality? Does a person’s sex define love and desire? To what extent are we capable of stepping out of the social roles that culture has formed in us?
