William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night or What You Wish

Tamási Áron Theatre, Sfantu Gheorghe

welfth Night is Shakespeare’s last comedy, thus a synthesis of all that had been tried out and successfully put on stage by the author. This piece tackles some very intricate and pliable relationships – brotherly, friendly, master-servant, but most of all love relationships, transcending the characteristics of the genre of comedy. There is such a thin line between the light, joyful comedy and the sublime tragedy that it is possible to give interpretation almost within the same key. László Bocsárdi with his direction of Hamlet has had the goal of our encountering with the state of “time out of its joint”; he wished to formulate our relationship with the tragic sense of creation. Twelfth Night is Shakespeare’s most popular comedy, which seemingly is a light piece having the goal of loose, merry drollery, becoming the cavalcade of multiple misunderstandings, deceptions and disguises. Even the earlier scholars noticed the significance that the play was written in the same year as Hamlet, in 1601. The main characters in fact unfold one single emotion throughout the play: the motif of unrequited, hopeless love.