Twelfth Night, Or What You Will

About

Pig Iron Theatre Company
Directed by: Dan Rothenberg

An uproarious world of drunkards and wine drenched parties, depressive noblemen and dueling musicians, idiots and veteran jesters, religious zealots and erotic misunderstandings, performed to the beat of a live Balkan band. Pig Iron uses its highly physical performance style to ignite one of Shakespeare’s most wicked comedies, and infuses his wordplay with an immediacy that is alive, funny, and unpredictable.

The creation of Pig Iron's staging of Twelfth Night has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the William Penn Foundation.

“…the whole production is pretty dazzling. The musicians — trombone, violin, accordion, tuba and more are in the instrument mix — play the audience into the theater and set a festive tone that somehow also bends time.” — New York Times 2014

“the show is buoyed along by a manic undercurrent even in its sharpest, most exquisitely clear-eyed moments, of which there are many. Like composer Rosie Langabeer’s music, its highs spin wildly and its lows are mournful and bottomless.” — New York Theater Review, 2014

“Pig Iron’s production boasts some of the best live music of any recent Shakespeare production in Philadelphia. Composer Rosie Langabeer unleashes a veritable orchestra of horns, accordions, fiddles and more, all of which orbit the actors onstage.” — Broad St Review, Alaina Mabaso, Sept 9 2011

4 times BARRYMORE AWARD WINNER 2012
OUTSTANDING MUSIC
OUTSTANDING MUSICAL DIRECTION
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
OUTSTANDING FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY