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Twelfth Night (2002)
![Sebastian [Rhys Meredith] and Viola / Cesario [Michael Brown].](http://www.globe-education.org/files/imagecache/lb_slideshow/images/Twelfth_Night_-_cropped.jpg "Sebastian [Rhys Meredith] and Viola / Cesario [Michael Brown]. Photo: John Tramper")
![Olivia [Mark Rylance]](http://www.globe-education.org/files/imagecache/lb_slideshow/images/SMALL_Mark_rylance_as_olivia.jpg "Olivia [Mark Rylance]. Photo: John Tramper.")
directed by Tim Carroll
Tell her, my love, more noble than the world, Prizes not quantity of dirty lands; The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her, Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune; But 'tis that miracle and queen of gems That nature pranks her in attracts my soul.
2.4.80-85
Believing her twin brother Sebastian to have drowned after a shipwreck which she has survived, the young Viola is stranded on the mysterious island of Illyria. Disguising herself as the page Cesario, she enters the service of the handsome Duke Orsino, who is madly in love with the beautiful Countess Olivia. But when, while delivering a letter, the Countess falls helplessly in love with the disguised messenger herself, Viola realises her problems have only just begun.
Meanwhile, the annual night of fun and feasting is being enjoyed to the full by Olivia's rogueish cousin Sir Toby Belch. Together with the gentlewoman Maria and his guest - Olivia's hapless suitor Sir Andrew Aguecheek - the prankster Belch schemes to embarrass the pompous steward Malvolio ...
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