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Holly Valentine has three cats named Sophie, Lady and Ellie, reads one.
Benjamin Levine loves penguins, dances ballet and wants to be an astrophysicist, says another.
You encounter that mini-metropolis as soon as you enter the Delacorte.
With a face-painting table, a rolling ice-cream cart, ushers chirping Welcome to Illyria!
Perhaps I missed some of the most beautiful stretches of Shakespeares text.
Theres a buoyant, throw-it-all-at-the-wall kind of energy at work that at times is successfully contagious.
Everything is explained in thisTwelfth Night, and everyone gets the happiest possible ending.
Why is Malvolio such a touchy, sententious jerk?
He was picked last in middle-school soccer.
sings James, Why has this power in me never been given a chance?
Is it as simple as putting on a pair of pants?
… Who am I besides how I look to you?
says the original texts Viola in the same situation, Thou must untangle this, not I.
/ It is too hard a knot for me to untie.
Hes not above revenge when the whirligig of time brings it in.
But in this Illyria, real cruelty isnt on the table, and so real humor is often sacrificed.
Why do we laugh at losses of dignity, and when have the lines been crossed?
