Twelfth Night

The name of the play “Twelfth Night” refers to the last twelve days of Christmas that we hear in the song “The Last Day”. The song is heard so often over the Christmas period. “Twelfth Night was a time of revelry, high jinks, fantasy, madness and disruption of convention”, as you would know if you have heard the song. Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night is relevant to the song as in his play there is a lot of foolishness and hidden identities that leads to a comedy play but with storylines of a lot of seriousness to them.
The play starts with Viola’s and Sebastian’s boat being shipwrecked, leaving them to find their own way to shore. Viola arrives in Illyria later finding out that her twin brother (Sebastian) may be dead, as no one has seen him. This is a serious storyline as death is involved and this leaves Viola devastated and upset. Viola is determined to find out what happened to her brother a...