A three-day run of the Upper School Play, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, opens on Friday. The Performing Arts Actor Ensemble will perform this rollicking comedy of mistaken identities, love lost and found, and a celebration of the traditional 12th night fever, when the hierarchy of the logical world is turned upside down and misrule becomes the norm.

The comical, love-triangled plot is the story of Viola, who is shipwrecked and loses contact with her twin brother, Sebastian. Viola believes him to be dead. She disguises herself as a young man and ends up serving as the intermediary between a Duke and his passionate love, Olivia. Olivia, however, is in love with the disguised Viola.

 

The production includes an original score written by CA Music Composition Instructor Brian Golden, with student performances by Danny Rosen and Emmet Ela on cello and Jill Murphy and Paige Thomas on flute.

 

The show runs Friday and Saturday nights, December 11 and 12, at 7 p.m. in the Froelicher Theater. Sunday, December 13, the performance is at 2 p.m. Tickets are available here: coloradoacademy.yapsody.com

Click here for a show trailer.