AFTER the huge success of 'Toshack or me!', Fluellen Theatre Company goes back to the Bard this month with a new production of the ever- popular 'Twelfth Night'. And among the venues for the production is Tenby's De Valence Pavilion next Thursday, November 16. Shakespeare's great romantic bitter-sweet comedy was voted, in one of those endless polls of 1999, the greatest comedy ever written. Many would agree with that verdict. There is certainly enough humour in the play to keep the laughter muscles well exercised, but there is also a wonderful poignancy about the play and it contains some of Shakespeare's greatest writing. Written circa 1601, when Shakespeare was at the height of his powers, the play - the last comedy he ever wrote, incidentally - is populated with many memorable characters such as Viola, the love-sick heroine, the conceited and humourless Malvolio, the eternally drunk Sir Toby Belch, the hoodwinked simpleton Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Feste, surely the most fascinating of all Shakespeare's clowns. A terrific cast - including George Andrews, Jack Llewellyn, Rhodri Miles, Claire Novelli, Charlotte Rogers and Owen Staton - has been assembled for Fluellen's irreverent (but, as always with Fluellen, textually accurate) theatre-in-the-round presentation. Tickets for the De Valence performance are £8, £6 concessions. Doors open 7 pm and the show commences at 7.30 pm. For further details and to book tickets, visit: http://www.devalence.co.uk">www.devalence.co.uk, or call 01834 843568 (box office is open Monday - Friday, 9 am - 1 pm and 30 minutes before doors open).
