Better A Witty Fool, Than A Foolish Wit

Coming to the Stratford Festival is a stylish update to Shakespeare's delightfully spirited tale of Viola, this time set in the swinging 60s! The shipwrecked orphan who takes matters into her own hands when stranded on the shores of Illyria. Viola assumes the disguise of a man just to find her way, but when that disguise lands her in a love-triangle, she's no choice but to hold on as the hijinks flow. Love, laughter and delight shine on all corners of the Bard's mad-cap masterpiece.

Including Shakespearean mainstays - mistaken identity, mischief, gender-bending, a shipwreck and of course - his deft wit, it's a testament to the universality of his genius that four-hundred-and-something years have done nothing to dampen the buoyancy of the hilarious rom-com that is Twelfth Night.