Saturday, July 14th, Seabreeze Amphitheatre, Carlin Park

The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival has arrived and they performed Twelfth Night free at Carlin Park through generous and forward thinking community leaders.  They say  Twelfth Night is the most melancholy of Shakespeare’s comedies.  The plot elements seem real and familiar enough–a cross dressed young woman, loveable drunks, love triangles and mistaken identities. 

Viola gets shipwrecked (plane wrecked) in Illyria and her twin brother dies.  She disguises herself as her brother and is employed by the Duke. Sebastian arrives in Illyria with his companion Antonio, a pirate, creating more confusion. Along the way, there are drunken antics, scheming servants and three marriages. Thank the heavens it was a beautiful night.