“Rod Beattie shucks off his frequently comic persona to invest a deeper, darker vision of Malvolio, the dark puritan spectre, managing to make the infamous cross-gartered scene both funny and sad.
In Sarah Afful, this Twelfth Night has a wonderful Viola. Afful speaks the poetry of Shakespeare’s verse in a way that is modern and clean, yet always blessed with the lyric caress of the text. She is undoubtedly a star in the making.”