Twelfth Night at Riverside Theatre

Sport for Jove’s acclaimed and brilliantly staged production takes us right to the waters edge, set in the golden sunlight of a 1960?s summer holiday by the sea. Shakespeare’s deliriously romantic classic is a potent cocktail of songs, sun and sand, melancholy and madness, comedy and chaos, a feast of love that will leave your heart lighter and your family closer. And as any family knows, on holidays, we never entirely escape our demons, indeed, we tend to pack them up with us.

Sport for Jove is revered for producing the sort of wonderful Globe Theatre-like connection between audience and actors, celebrating these extraordinary stories with the accessibility and passion so essential to their vision. Starring one of Australia’s most cherished actors, Mark Lee, as Malvolio, along with Anthony Gooley, Abigail Austin, Megan Drury, James Lugton and the astonishing voice of Tyran Parke as Feste the fool.

“Twelfth Night is about finding the freedom that comes with loving others more than oneself,” says Director, Damien Ryan. “It celebrates the full spectrum of love, set in a country called Illyria, a place where refugees can find their families again, where self-obsession is punished, where revenge and foolish pranks will pay a price, but boy they make us feel good, and where happiness can only be found in freedom, or ‘what you will’…Now wouldn’t that be a magical place to live?”