Twelfth Night

7 - 9 May

By William Shakespeare | Directed by Federay Holmes | Musical Direction by Ben McQuigg

Twelfth Night

7 - 9 May

Director Federay Holmes
Composer, Musical Director and Sound Designer Ben McQuigg
Movement Director Matthew Coulton
Set Designer Anna Kelsey
Costume Designer
Nicolai Hart-Hansen
Lighting Designer Peter Harrison

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”

On the sun-kissed island of Illyria, a shipwrecked twin searches for her sibling, a duke woos a disinterested lady-in-mourning, gender flips, fools sing, the strict go silly and certainty crumbles into confusion – all in the name of love in all its forms.

Shakespeare’s treasured romantic comedy, Twelfth Night, is brought to youthful life by our Acting cohort. Witty, tender, and deliriously funny, it is a joyous celebration of love and the music that feeds it.

Age guidance: 12+

Duration: 1 hour 45 mins, no interval

This production features moderate violence and bullying, discrimination, prop knives and fake blood.

The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings or streams of this production is strictly prohibited, and is an offence under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Booking Info

Dates

Thu 7 May, 2:15pm
Thu 7 May, 7:15pm
Fri 8 May, 7:15pm
Sat 9 May, 2:15pm
Sat 9 May, 7:15pm

Prices
Standard £18
Concessions (Mountview alumni/access/under 18/student/unemployed)* £13.50
Southwark Presents Cardholder £12
Venue

The Backstage Theatre, Mountview, 120 Peckham Hill Street, London SE15 5JT

To Book

020 8881 2201

Our box office hours are currently Monday-Friday 9am-8pm and Saturday 9am-3pm. Online booking is 24 hours, but phone and in-person bookings should be made within these times. Tickets are booked subject to Mountview's terms and conditions.

Industry Booking

If you are an agent, casting director or industry colleague looking to view this production, please contact Neil Rutherford - [email protected]

Federay Holmes

Director

Federay is an Associate Artist at Shakespeare’s Globe where she directs and teaches acting, and is also an Associate of experimental London theatre company, The Factory, for whom she writes and performs.

She has variously taught acting and directed many productions with undergraduate students at RADA, Royal Central School of Music and Drama, Rose Bruford, LAMDA, Mountview, National Youth Theatre, Oxford School of Drama and was lead Acting Professor for Rutgers Conservatory Study Abroad Programme at Shakespeare’s Globe. She works frequently with Intermission Youth Theatre.

She has a long association as director with experimental Baroque Ensemble, Solomon’s Knot for whom she wrote Catching Lightning, which premiered at in London at the Wigmore Hall.

Ben Mcquigg

Musical Director, Composer & Sound Designer

Ben trained at Mountview after graduating in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southampton. Theatre includes, As Music Director: Ride the Cyclone (Southwark Elephant), The Lightning Thief (The Other Palace), Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC), Before After (Southwark Playhouse), The Box of Delights (RSC), Cymbeline (RSC), Thrill Me (Jermyn Street).

As Music Supervisor: The Frogs (Southwark Playhouse). Other theatre credits include: My Neighbour Totoro, The Brightening Air, A Face in the Crowd, The Little Big Things, Moulin Rouge! and Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Works as Composer and/or Sound Designer includes: Children of the Night (Southwark Playhouse), The Winter’s Tale (RADA), Hamlet (RSC) and When This is Over (Yard).

Matthew Coulton

Movement Director

Matthew is a director, movement director, and actor based between London, Lewes and Sweden, originally from North Yorkshire. As a movement director, he has worked on numerous Off-West End-Award winning productions, including Slaughterhouse Five, which won Best Production 2025.

He often works with movement in relation to video, projection and new technologies, and physical storytelling through objects, puppetry and the ensemble in both intimate studio and large-scale outdoor productions. On screen, his movement direction includes the feature film Stanley: A Man of Variety, starring Timothy Spall.

Anna Kelsey

Set Designer

Anna trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Her theatre credits include: Lark Rise to Candleford (Watermill/Theatre by the Lake), A Christmas Carol, Ottilie (Barn Theatre), The Seagull (Royal Edinburgh Lyceum/Chichester Festival Theatre), Big Big Sky (New Vic), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Ambassadors), Mrs President, Stiletto (Charing Cross), Basic Bald B*tch (Brixton House), With Courage (The Other Palace), Shakespeare’s R&J (Reading Rep), The Wicker Husband, Under Milk Wood, Our Town (Watermill), The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Indecent Proposal (Southwark Borough), The Snow Queen (Cheltenham Everyman), Guesthouse (Eastern Angles), Moby Dick the Musical (Union), 1001 Nights (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Ring Ring, Dance Nation (Omnibus), If.Destroyed.Still.True (Hope), Exodus (Finborough), Le Loup-Garou and Le Dernier Sorcier (Gothic Opera).

Peter Harrison

Lighting Designer

Peter trained at RADA. His Theatre credits include The Smeds and the Smoos (Tall Stories), A Singe Man (Park Theatre), Pink Mist (Bristol Old Vic), Macbeth (Stafford Festival Shakespeare), Translunar Paradise (Theatre Ad Infinitium), Chicago (Pimlico Opera), and Orestes (Shared Experience).
His Opera credits include Paul Bunyan (Welsh National Youth Opera), and Orpheus in the Underworld (Royal College of Music), and his lighting for Dance includes work for the Royal Ballet, Sadlers Wells and the Gartnerplatz Theatre, Munich.

Twelfth Night Creatives

Fight Director
Marcello Marascalchi

Intimacy Cordinator
Cristian Valle

Voice Coach
Andrea Hazel Lewis

Assistant Director
Luke Mcdonald *

* MA/MFA Creative Practice - Directing student

Twelfth Night Production Team

Production Manager
Naomi Wildridge

Costume Supervisor
Charlie Rowen

Stage Manager
Catriana Black ∆∆

Deputy Stage Manager
Joe Doyle ∆

Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager
Fanis Christou

Assistant Stage Manager
James Cox (He/Him) ∆

Production Electrician
Marco Ong ∆

Production Sound Engineer
Valerie Goriaeva (She/Her) ∆

Lighting Operator & Lighting Programmer
Mimi Storey ∆

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters

Scenic Artist / Prop Maker
James Wilkes

Scenic Artists
James Cox ∆
Megan Elliott
Maisie Glover ∆
Neve Watts ∆∆
Francesca Wolff ∆∆

∆∆ PG Dip Stage and Production Management
∆ FdA/BA Technical Production student

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