Romeo and Juliet, The Duchess of Malfi, King Lear, The White Devil. It’s time for a comedy already! Zoë Goslin, Claire Curtis-Ward, Samantha Blinn, Will McKay and Ariana Karp dive into the warm waters of Illyria to immerse ourselves in Twelfth Night.

Ariana will be directing Twelfth Night for the International Shakespeare Center’s inaugural Repertory Season with Ducdame Ensemble. She is thrilled and honored to announce that the production will be performed in Meow Wolf’s extraordinary House of Eternal Return. Having done her book work, she wants to test out some ideas with a group of actors, some of whom are in her cast! As with all of our podcasts, this series will aim to explore the play, but uniquely, the discoveries we make in this podcast will directly feed into the initial rehearsal process. 

In addition to our participants sharing initial thoughts on the play and recounting their experiences, good and bad of the play, we discuss:

• “What is Love?” The central question of the play. Twelfth Night as a exploration of every permutation of love
• The human origin myth in Greek mythology -the essential human experience is the search for your ‘other half’
• Mirrors and Parallels-for both situations and characters
• Gender confusion and gender bending
• Character Participation versus Observation 

Twelfth Night in the First Folio.