Many people who frequent the theatre or English majors would recognize the lines "If music be the food of love play on" or "Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them."
What many don't know is that these lines are from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the U.Va. Drama Department's latest production.
Twelfth Night is a comedy about a shipwreck, cross-dressing, love and mistaken identity. In all of this confusion, it's easy to get lost. Luckily, the director of Twelfth Night, Theresa Davis, has directed the piece before.
"It's been an adventure coming back to the same text with a new group of actors," Davis said.
For Davis, Twelfth Night is ultimately a play about love and loss coupled with joy and debauchery.
"The scenes are universal, they speak to humanity," Davis quoted one of her actors as saying during a cast workshop.
The workshop, directed by Andrew Wade the former head of voice for the Royal Shakespeare Company, was meant to help the cast with the language of the Bard, which Davis compared to learning a foreign tongue.
Any director tackling a work of Shakespeare would certainly need a muse to conquer his beautiful, yet extremely difficult language.
"As a director I'm always looking for evocative research or period research
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