Shakespeare for White Trash -13 - Twelfth Night PDF
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Canadian author Crad Kilodney created the “Shakespeare For White Trash” series to make Shakespeare understandable and enjoyable to the many millions of people living now who have little or no knowledge of Shakespeare, and to prove to them that the stories contained in Shakespeare's plays are superb. The plots and characters are unchanged, but everything else has been radically restyled. Read Crad's versions and you will become a Shakespeare fan. Enjoy!
Kilodney originally posted his versions on Wordpress.com from 2010 to shortly before his death in 2014. It was the first time that all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays had been rewritten by one author and published in one place. They are re-packaged here to increase the likelyhood of people, like you, finding them.
Mr. Kilodney hoped acting companies would be encouraged to stage these plays more often.
Gist of the story: Twins Sebastian and Viola are separated in a shipwreck off the coast of Illyria, and
each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a man, and, with the help of her rescuer,
makes her way to the court of Count Orsino, where she gets hired as a servant (“Cesario”). She falls in3
love with him but can’t tell him. Orsino is in love with Lady Olivia, but she has no interest in him.
Orsino sends “Cesario” with love messages for Olivia, but she falls in love with the messenger instead.
Meanwhile, Sir Andrew Aguecheek is in love with Olivia and is being encouraged by her uncle, Sir
Toby Belch, who is leeching off him. Olivia’s steward, Malvolio, is tricked by Maria into believing
that Olivia is in love with him. Sebastian and his rescuer, Antonio, come to town and get separated.
Antonio mistakes Viola for Sebastian and get arrested while trying to save her from a duel. The chaos
is finally sorted out, and three couples end up getting married — Orsino and Viola; Sebastian and
Olivia; and Sir Toby and Maria. (Twelfth Night is full of improbabilities and is a good example of
Shakespeare’s “fast and dirty” approach to stagecraft. The idea is to keep a complicated plot moving
along, and neatness doesn’t count; neither does believability. The Director has little choice but to keep
the staging simple and trust the audience to get it, which is the way it was done in Shakespeare’s day.
This version has a break in Act 3, Scene 4 for the sake of clarity. The Fool’s closing song has been
rewritten and makes use of the play’s alternate title, What You Will.)
Kilodney originally posted his versions on Wordpress.com from 2010 to shortly before his death in 2014. It was the first time that all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays had been rewritten by one author and published in one place. They are re-packaged here to increase the likelyhood of people, like you, finding them.
Mr. Kilodney hoped acting companies would be encouraged to stage these plays more often.
Gist of the story: Twins Sebastian and Viola are separated in a shipwreck off the coast of Illyria, and
each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a man, and, with the help of her rescuer,
makes her way to the court of Count Orsino, where she gets hired as a servant (“Cesario”). She falls in3
love with him but can’t tell him. Orsino is in love with Lady Olivia, but she has no interest in him.
Orsino sends “Cesario” with love messages for Olivia, but she falls in love with the messenger instead.
Meanwhile, Sir Andrew Aguecheek is in love with Olivia and is being encouraged by her uncle, Sir
Toby Belch, who is leeching off him. Olivia’s steward, Malvolio, is tricked by Maria into believing
that Olivia is in love with him. Sebastian and his rescuer, Antonio, come to town and get separated.
Antonio mistakes Viola for Sebastian and get arrested while trying to save her from a duel. The chaos
is finally sorted out, and three couples end up getting married — Orsino and Viola; Sebastian and
Olivia; and Sir Toby and Maria. (Twelfth Night is full of improbabilities and is a good example of
Shakespeare’s “fast and dirty” approach to stagecraft. The idea is to keep a complicated plot moving
along, and neatness doesn’t count; neither does believability. The Director has little choice but to keep
the staging simple and trust the audience to get it, which is the way it was done in Shakespeare’s day.
This version has a break in Act 3, Scene 4 for the sake of clarity. The Fool’s closing song has been
rewritten and makes use of the play’s alternate title, What You Will.)
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