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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night played Thursdays-Saturdays, October 31-November 2 and November 7-9, 2002, at 8 pm, in the Little Theater of MIT's Kresge Auditorium. Admission was $6 for MIT/Wellesley students and $8 for the general public.

Rehearsal and production photos and videos are now available.

From the Director:
"What is love?"

Recipe for a Twelfth Night cocktail: mix equal parts unrequited love and acerbic wit and pour into a tall glass rimmed with decadence. Toss in some cross-dressing and a switchblade. Turn down the lights. Turn up the volume. Drink.

Our Twelfth Night interprets Shakespeare's discontented revelers as perpetual party people, who nurse their angst-induced hangovers with a potent blend of booze, blues, tawdry affairs, and adolescent pranks. Their determination to have a good time is surpassed only by their inability to get what they want, or want what they have. And it is love, of course, that is rejected and pursued, offered and withheld. In the end, Shakespeare provides us with an uneasy compromise. The happily paired couples are reminders of the pairings that didn't happen, and the broken hearts that are the inevitable consequences. Have the partners chosen well? "What's to come is still unsure . . ."

-Wanda

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