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Shakespeare’s most successful comedy

Akiva Fox, whose latest directing work was seen in the short play Howard at the Winter Carnival of New Works, takes this timeless piece and presents it in a simple setting with minimum focus on details such as set and costume. Instead he concentrates more on ensuring his cast and crew convey the play in such a way that an audience unfamiliar with the piece will still find much to enjoy. There are some awkward moments. The stage fights are clumsy and leave one feeling uneasy, hoping that no one really gets hurt, and some lines by performers in the smaller roles are delivered in a stilting manner, but overall there is much to enjoy over the five acts. (Full Review)

Twelfth Night

This is good Shakespeare. This is damn good Shakespeare.

Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s most difficult comedies, full of implausible developments and astonishing cases of mistaken identity. Firebelly just plays the heck out of it, squeezing out every conceivable laugh with fully realized characters, slam-bang comic timing, and assured, well-conceived direction. In the end, as every comic playwright from Aristophenes to Christopher Durang has known, if the laughs are a-comin’ the plausibilities don’t matter. (Full Review)

'Twelfth Night' Needs a Little Tightening to Find Success

Ol' Will Shakespeare loved his tales of shipwrecks and gender-bending mistaken identity.

He serves up both in “Twelfth Night,” and Firebelly Productions is presenting the comedy as part of the Shakespeare in Washington initiative, which will have the national capital area awash in Bardmania for the first six months of the year. (Full Review)

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*** Firebelly Productions is supported by Arlington County through the Arlington Commission for the ARTS and the Cultural Affairs Division of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Resources. ***