Caroline Toal & Farhang Ghajar in Twelfth Night | Photo by Dahlia Katz
Director Gregory Prest’s aesthetically classical adaptation of Twelfth Night, this year’s Dream in High Park from Canadian Stage, is truly funny and very tender. Having whittled it down to a buoyant 90 minutes, Prest has also repurposed some text from other Shakespeare works to make Feste (Steven Sutcliffe) into a narrator, waxing poetic about the aching, intoxicating, irksome phenomenon of love. Sutcliffe’s whole deal here is expansive, blathering and ultimately wise… in that sly way only a proper Shakespearian fool can be. Continue Reading