By Louise
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Twelfth Night is Shake-Scene’s Christmas production and I
think it’s a great choice. Twelfth Night is an important part of Christmas. There
was always a bit of a fight at my infant school about who played the Wise Men
in the Nativity play.
I don’t think Twelfth Night or
Christmas is actually mentioned in the play, though Sir Toby starts to sing
something about the twelfth day in December, so maybe the main part of the
action takes place on ‘the twelfth night in December’. But I think the title
comes from the time when the play was first performed and it’s possible the
play is also set on or around Twelfth Night. In Elizabethan times, the Festival
of Twelfth Night involved men and women exchanging clothes and generally
behaving badly. Perhaps this is why the play ends happily for most of the
characters – maybe everyone accepts all the happenings as another typical
Twelfth Night.
