Shakespeare’s bittersweet comedy transports the audience to a small Mediterranean island, where the lovesick Duke Orsino pines for the beautiful Countess Olivia. A young woman named Viola is shipwrecked on the island – in desperate circumstances she disguises herself as a boy, and a complex love-triangle emerges. Add a raucous trio, led by the mischievous Sir Toby Belch, and you have an explosive mix of mistaken identity, riotous disorder and cross-dressing!
ALICIA CHARLES
Trained: Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
Theatre includes: The Creditors (The Cockpit Theatre), Macbeth (The Broadway Theatre), SALOME (The Roundhouse), INVISIBLE MOUNTAINS (The National Theatre), TALL PHOENIX, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), and EQUAL WRITES (Tristan Bates Theatre.)
TV and Film includes: Coronation Street (Granada), Doctors (BBC) and Blacklands (Foughtnight Productions).
PHILIP CHILDS
Trained: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Theatre includes: People (National Theatre); Keeler (Dir: Paul Nicholas); Guilty Secret (The Mill at Sonning); The Habit of Art (National Theatre); Neville’s Island (Torch Theatre); On Your Honour (Jermyn Street Theatre), Art (Shh Productions), Oh! What a Night (Dir: Kim Gavin), Noises Off (Torch Theatre), Don’t Dress For Dinner (Northampton Royal Theatre), Tweflth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Dir: Leo Dolan), The hired Man (West End),
Television and Film includes: Vera Drake (Dir: Mike Leigh) In Love with Barbara (BBC), Clapham Junction (BBC), Doctors (BBC), Murder City (Granada Television), Mile High (Hewland Int.), Dream Team (Hewland Int.), Bernard’s Watch (Carlton Television) Eastenders (BBC).
AMY DOWNHAM
Trained: Welsh College of Music and Drama
Theatre includes: Sybil in Daisy Pulls it Off (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Julie in Out of Love (the White Bear).
Television includes: Francesca in Doctors (BBC) and Isobel in Pentalar (The Fiction Factory).
She most recently starred in a series regular role as Jen inE4’s Hollyoaks. She is very much looking forward to being back on stage and tackling her first professional Shakespeare.
ANTHONY GLENNON
Trained:Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Theatre includes: Toad in ‘The Wind in the Willows’ Sixteen Feet‘Macbeth’ (Vienna’s English Theatre), ‘Hamlet’, ‘Summer Lightning’, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ (Pitlochry Festival Theatre) and ‘The Comedy of Errors’ (Exeter Northcott).
Anthony is a former member of the BBC Radio Drama Company and has featured in over 100 Radio productions for the BBC including: Dr Zhivago, Shylock, The Sea, The Irish RM and The Regent’s Tale. His Radio credits also include work for Pier Productions, First Writes, Unique and Big Finish.
Anthony has recorded voice overs and audiobooks for the BBC, Listening Books, Flame Visuals and Fresh One Productions.
He recently featured in a TV Commercial racing Usain Bolt across London.
PAUL HAYWARD
Trained: LAMDA
Theare includes: open-air tours of Sense and Sensibility playing Edward Ferris and A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Lysander for Chapterhouse Theatre Company, Coming in From the Cold Sideways Theatre Company and The Ones Who Kill Shooting Stars Three Streets Productions.
ADRIAN IRVINE
Trained: RADA
For Sixteenfeet: Badger in Wind in the Willows
Theatre credits include: Romeo & Juliet (Benvolio), King Lear (France), Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards (Yoshitsugu) – all for National Theatre, Henry V (Orleans), Coriolanus, The Wives Excuse (Captain Springame) all for Royal Shakespeare Company, Strange Kind of Hero – Brighton Festival, Hamlet (Horatio) – Bristol Old Vic, Three Sisters (Andre/Peter) – Birmingham Rep, Macbeth (Macduff) Leicester Haymarket, The Tempest (Ferdinand)- Salisbury Playhouse, The Hostage (Rio Rita) Harrogate Theatre, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Adam) English Theatre Frankfurt
Television includes: Coronation Street (Giles), The Golden Hour (Paediatrician), Eastenders (Ben Ashford), Murder in Mind (Anaesthetist), Casualty (Russell), Dalziel and Pascoe (Dr Marwood), CI5 New Professionals (Agent Spencer), King Lear (France), Neverwhere (Clarence), Soldier Soldier (Sgt Thomas), Doctors (Michael).
Radio includes: The Roads to Freedom – Radio 4, The Nations Favourite 100 Poems, Father Gilbert Mysteries with Adrian Plass.
MORGAN PHILPOTT
Trained: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
For Sixteenfeet Productions: Alice in the Walled Garden and Wind in the Willows.
Other Theatre: Larissa and the Merchants (Arcola Theatre);Arabian Nights, Treasure Island, Gulliver’s Travels, The Snow Queen (Watermill Theatre);Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Merry Wives of Windsor (Guildford Shakespeare Company); The Sound of Music (Kilworth House); Dick Turpin’s Last Ride (Bury St. Edmunds Theatre Royal); Don Quixote (Croydon Warehouse); UK tour of Larkrise to Candleford (New Perspectives Theatre Company); Twelfth Night and George’s Marvellous Medicine (Birmingham Stage Company); James and the Giant Peach (Northampton Theatre Royal); Pinnochio (Polka Theatre); Romeo and Juliet and Under Milk Wood (QM2); Much Ado About Nothing, Othello and Sir Jonathan Miller’s production of Hamlet (Shakespeare at The Tobacco Factory).
Film and Television: THEN, VOYAGER (Filmro Productions), THE STORY OF GEORGE MULLER (CTA), BEAU BRUMMEL (BBC4).
ANDREW PEPPER
Theatre credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Tempest (Creation Theatre Company, Oxford), Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre), Lethe (Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond), the Scarecrow in Philip Pullman’s The Scarecrow and his Servant (Southwark Playhouse), The Full Monty (English Theatre, Frankfurt), By Jeeves (Landor Theatre), Alice in Wonderland (Brewhouse, Taunton), White Suit (Helen Chadwick Group) and Rapunzel (Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds).
Television credits include : Spook Squad (BBC).
Andrew has also performed in numerous London and European cabaret venues, including one man shows at Pizza on the Park, the Leicester Square Theatre and the English Theatre Frankfurt.
JENIFER RHODES
Trained: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; Royal Holloway College, London; Université François Rabelais (Tours, France).
Theatre credits include: Sophie de Palma in Masterclass (English Theatre Frankfurt); Madeleine in Marguerite (Tabard Theatre); Sheba in Dandy Dick (ATG/Theatre Royal Brighton and UK Tour); Anna in The Yalta Game; Proprietress in Elegy for a Lady; Michaela in Carmen (all in rep at Stephen Joseph Theatre); Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband; Elma in Bus Stop; Satin in Nana; Kiss Me Kate (all in rep at Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Penny in Honk! (Royal and Derngate, Northampton); Belle in A Christmas Carol (Theatre-by-the-Lake); Zerlina in Don Giovanni; Bet/Charlotte in Oliver! (New Vic Theatre), Journalist in The Sundowe (Eden Court/Tour); Sorge in Goethe’s Faust Parts One and Two; Antonia in Man of La Mancha (Royal Lyceum Theatre), A Walk in the Park; Tir Na Nog (Assembly Rooms/OM Productions), Catriona in Whisky Galore! (Cutting Edge Productions); Kabaret (Stellar Quines). For Sixteenfeet Alice in the Walled Garden.
Recordings: This is It (AEG Live/Metro Voices)
Interviews with our Director and Cast
Watch our interviews with the Director, Jenny Lee, and the cast as they discuss the themes of the play.
The Globe in Shakespeare’s time and now, including different acting styles and why the plays were written as they were.
Shakespeare Workshop (Option 1)
The Globe (Shakespeare’s time and now) / different acting styles and verse
Shakespeare’s Verse (Option 2)
This is looking at verse in Shakespeare, principally iambic pentameter. Students will require a 10 line speech (Prologue of Romeo & Juliet etc), wear comfortable clothes and have a bean bag or tennis ball each that they can use.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will (Option 3)
Themes of the play, relationships and original practices, exploring clothing, music, dance and settings possible in the Globe of around 1601.
Colin Hurley (Workshop Leader)
Colin has previously played Sir Toby Belch in the much acclaimed Globe production of Twelfth Night with Mark Rylance (Olivia) and Stephen Fry (Malvolio) in 2012/13.
Colin has worked regularly at Shakespeare’s Globe, since 2001, performing in Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Golden Ass, Measure For Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Troilus and Cressida, In Extremis, Henry VIII, All’s Well That Ends Well, Anne Boleyn, and toured America with The Globe’s remounted, all-male production of Measure For Measure. He has also played leading roles at the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company
For the last 9 years he has been leading workshops with The Globe’s Education Department, and working longer term with acting students from Minneapolis and Rose Bruford College.
