Review: Twelfth Night by Scottish Rite Theater

by Michael Meigs
Published on August 11, 2008

Director (yclept "Master of Play") Beth Burns, just relocatedfrom Los Angeles, achieves a quick-paced, highly entertaining and almost too short evening of entertainment.

Twelfth Night, just opened at the convenient downtown location close to the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum, is a graceful, sprightly production of Shakespeare's comedy of parted twins, mistaken identities, and the merciless mocking of overweening ambition. This is the one in which the dour Malvolio, steward to Lady Olivia, is duped by two roysters into smiling, making love overtures to his lady, and appearing in yellow stockings, all cross gartered. And Viola, shipwrecked, masquerades as a …

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