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Gender-bending night a comic treat in Bristol
Frenetically funny: Guy Hughes and Dawn Sievewright [Mihaela Bodlovic]

Twelfth Night
Bristol Old Vic

 

WITH gender politics rarely out of the news, this highly topical exploration of Shakespeare’s play is set in a hippy, psychedelic house party where revellers extend their stay when they find a copy of Twelfth Night and decide to perform it.

 

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