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Weston Theater Company concludes its 89th anniversary season with \u201cThe Twelfth Night Show,\u201d a brand new musical very loosely based upon Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cTwelfth Night.\u201d Somehow, it captured the gist of Shakespeare\u2019s plot with laughter, unexpected poignancy and not one \u201cforsooth.\u201d Last Friday\u2019s preview performance by four talented actor-musicians delighted an audience eager to set cares aside for awhile for a convoluted tale of theater, perseverance and love. It was all very silly fun.<\/p>\n
The conceit of the show is that almost the entire cast of a planned production of a version of Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cTwelfth Night” set in outer space have contracted food poisoning. Faced with canceling and sinking the fledgling theater company financially, the one remaining cast member and three backing musicians decide that the show will go on anyway and that they will fill in the blanks as best they can. Repeatedly breaking the \u201cfourth wall\u201d to address the audience directly, that is just what the four intrepid souls do.<\/p>\n
Co-creator and Music Director Jacob Brandt played Jacob, who at various times assumed the roles of the steward Malvolio, drunkard Sir Toby Belch and his cohort Andrew Aguecheek. All the while, Jacob\u2019s enthusiasm for the Bard and constant reminders of a theatrical education made him more and more unbearable to the others onstage. Brandt played the part of a harmless boor well.<\/p>\n
Eileen Doan portrayed Eileen, who, in the play within the play, portrayed Viola, the shipwrecked twin who disguises herself as the man servant to Count Orsino, and secretly pines for his love. It was a delicate balancing act and Doan pulled it off.<\/p>\n
Allie Seibold was Allie, who along with playing the stand-up bass and displaying a sweet soprano singing voice, portrayed the Countess Olivia, who constantly rebuffs the romantic entreaties of Orsino, preferring the company of Orsino\u2019s man servant, the disguised Viola. Seibold wore her character\u2019s petulance well.<\/p>\n
Seth Eliser played Seth, (sense a pattern here?), who assumed the roles of Orsino and also Viola\u2019s twin, Sebastion, thought dead by Viola. It particularly was in the later interaction between Seth and Allie, and their realization that they really had room to love one another, that \u201cThe Twelfth Night Show\u201d really found its traction. The silliness gave way to real unadorned feelings, demonstrated.<\/p>\n
Scenic Designer Daniel Prosky chose to plop the characters on a barren red planet with a myriad of stars above, freeing the actors to ply their trade without constraints.<\/p>\n
The lively original music, which for the most part recapped all of the goings-on, was adroitly played by all four of the actor-musicians. Quoting from the opening number, which, in turn, quoted a famous line in Shakespeare\u2019s original work: \u201cIf music be the food of love, play on!\u201d<\/p>\n
Performances of \u201cThe Twelfth Night Show \u201d continue at Walker Farm off Route 100 in Weston, through Oct. 12. Ticket reservations may be made on-line at westontheater.org<\/a> or by calling the box office at 802-824-5288.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.reformer.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weston Theater Company concludes its 89th anniversary season with \u201cThe Twelfth Night Show,\u201d a brand new musical very loosely based upon Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cTwelfth Night.\u201d Somehow, it captured the gist of Shakespeare\u2019s plot with laughter, unexpected poignancy and not one \u201cforsooth.\u201d Last Friday\u2019s preview performance by four talented actor-musicians delighted an audience eager to set cares […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2063493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741,356250],"class_list":["post-2063492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Theatre-Review-The-Twelfth-Night-Show-Entertainment.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063494,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063492\/revisions\/2063494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2063493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}