Twelfth Night

Shakespeare’s classic comedy of gender and mistaken identity has been given a modern update at Southwark Playhouse, with a hard-working cast of six setting the play at a music festival. This is a smart move – from personal experience, I can confirm that festivals, like the Illyria of the original play, are largely populated with overdramatic people doing overdramatic things. Whilst some of the original play’s concepts don’t quite translate fully, the result is a fun, quirky and sometimes silly take on the text, packed into an accessible 90 minutes.