Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival - Twelfth Night

Now in its 19th season, Bard on the Beach is one of Canada's largest not-for-profit, professional Shakespeare Festivals. Presented in a magnificent setting on the waterfront in Vancouver's Vanier Park, the Festival offers Shakespeare plays, related dramas, and several special events in two performance tents from June through September. Bard on the Beach is a registered not-for-profit society with a mandate to present the works of William Shakespeare professionally and with integrity in an annual Festival that is both affordable and accessible to a wide audience, and to nurture and promote a passion and enthusiasm for Shakespeare's work.

Details About The Venue

When twins Sebastian and Viola are shipwrecked, disguise, mistaken identities and misplaced affections result in a delightful tangle of romance. Viola, masquerading as a man, falls for Duke Orsino but he is smitten with the beautiful but un-reciprocating Olivia. Olivia in turn falls for the disguised Viola. When Viola’s look-alike brother suddenly appears, romantic confusion truly reigns. Meanwhile, Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, the maid Maria and clown Feste plan a hoax on the pompous steward, Malvolio. THE STAGING: Set in the 1920’s in a stylized, romanticized homage to old Hollywood films.

Twelfth Night will be presented within the 520-seat Mainstage tent, which offers two productions performed in repertory from early June through late September. The Mainstage tent is open-ended so that the actors perform against a spectacular backdrop of mountains, sea and sky - a highlight of the Bard experience.

• Saturday, August 30, 2008 8:00 PM
• Sunday, August 31, 2008 7:00 PM
• Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:00 PM
• Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:00 PM
• Saturday, September 06, 2008 7:00 PM
• Sunday, September 07, 2008 1:00 PM
• Sunday, September 07, 2008 7:00 PM
• Tuesday, September 09, 2008 7:00 PM
• Friday, September 12, 2008 1:00 PM
• Friday, September 12, 2008 7:00 PM
• Saturday, September 13, 2008 7:00 PM
• Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:00 PM
• Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:00 PM
• Thursday, September 18, 2008 7:00 PM
• Friday, September 19, 2008 1:00 PM
• Sunday, September 21, 2008 7:00 PM
• Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:00 PM
• Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:00 PM
• Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:00 PM
• Friday, September 26, 2008 1:00 PM
• Saturday, September 27, 2008 7:00 PM

Location & Directions

Vanier Park
1695 Whyte Avenue, Vanier Park (Mainstage Tent)
Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 3J9

Festivals Events

6/17/2008 THRU 8/26/2008 - CHATTERBOX TUESDAYS
7/07/2008 - SHAKESPEARE FORUM
7/23/2008 - BARD-B-Q AND FIREWORKS
7/26/2008 - BARD-B-Q AND FIREWORKS
7/30/2008 - BARD-B-Q AND FIREWORKS
8/02/2008 - BARD-B-Q AND FIREWORKS
8/16/2008 - CELEBRATING RED AND WHITE
8/25/2008 - OPERA AND ARIAS
9/01/2008 - OPERA AND ARIAS
9/08/2008 - OPERA AND ARIAS

*For more information on the above events, see their individual listings under the following headings:
“Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival - Shakespeare Forum”
“Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival - Chatterbox Tuesdays”
“Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival - Bard-B-Q and Fireworks”
“Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival - Celebrating Red and White”
“Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival - Opera and Arias”