twelve.txt

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http://www.nightnews.net/fringe2007.htm#twln
Title: Twelfth Night - The Quintessentially Splendiferous Theatre Company
3 silver bats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQqEMWbs13E

23 08 07 - 'Goth Twelfth Night' as this production is known by its 
young supporters seems to have come by way of a sixth form college 
and some support from St Andrews's University where it was well 
received at the local church hall. Twelfth Night is one of 
Shakespeare's great plays, a comedy of cross-dressing, mistaken 
identity, deception, cruelty, gender confusion, ambition, and love.
This show is in the best traditions of student companies that have 
graced the fringe with their hard work and bright optimism. Their 
unique interpretation is to set the play in a Goth, rock and 
alternative music scene sub culture and play up the dark sensual 
and erotic aspects. This involves Goth and rock clothing, spiked 
collars, corsetry, rubber suits, much bare flesh and some self 
conscious kink. While this does not fail to entertain, the show is 
by no means perfect and has some pretty disastrous moments in it. 
Some of the audience entered late and left early, the amount of 
disbelief required to be suspended to enjoy the production being 
a bit too much even for hardened fringe goers. Its a bit of a spoof
that seemed to emanate from the earliest days of the Fringe sent to
perplex modern, more sophisticated audiences. The sound quality was
a major weakness, the cast sometimes struggled to make themselves 
heard and the sound tracks that accompanied music and dance did not
seem to be digitally mastered. It was an interesting experience but
overall rather rough around the edges. It has some sexy, 
entertaining and genuinely 'funny peculiar' and 'funny haha' moments
but at two hours, it was overall a rather painful experience to get
to them.

By John Vassallo