Love, deception, ambition, and desire collide in Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy. A delightful blend of mistaken identity, disguises, and love triangles, Twelfth Night features some of Shakespeare’s most famed passages, with its effervescent comic energy carried swiftly by deeper, richer currents of grief, forgiveness, and transformation. Fast, energetic, and above all gloriously entertaining, Twelfth Night is one of the great playwright’s most popular and enduring stories.

We’re excited to have Actors From The London Stage appearing for the third time at UTC’s Fine Arts Center, bringing with them an ethos and mission which is simplicity at its finest. Five actors take the stage, with minimal props and costumes, and direct themselves in a performance of a complete Shakespeare play, with each actor portraying multiple roles. The goal: to interpret Shakespeare’s text as a blueprint for performance, lifting the words off the page as Shakespeare originally intended.

Founded in 1975 by University of California, Santa Barbara Professor Homer “Murph” Swander and the renowned stage & screen actor Sir Patrick Stewart, Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS) is one of the oldest touring Shakespeare theatre companies in the world. These two performances will be the culmination of an intensive weeklong residency program at UTC, which is truly one of a kind.