Description of “What You Will”

Life is one big soap opera in Illyria – a country where everyone is very much in earnest, but also a little insane. The social center of Illyria, Club 12^th Night, marks the boundary between games and masquerades and the business of the workaday world, a place where pranks and disguises, playful games and folly rule.

A shipwrecked woman enters the fantastic Club 12^th Night, beginning a chain of events that lead to an astonishing conclusion.  Mistaken identities, intrigue, music, a beautiful heiress, merry drunken revelers, and a spiteful servant merge with a hip–hop rhythm in Shakespeare’s enchanting tale of revelry and love. Hopeless romantics will be captivated and pranksters will discover the ultimate joke. 

 

Directed by BRT’s Artistic Director, Keith Baker and Donald Byrd, acclaimed Broadway choreographer (The Color Purple) and Artistic Director of Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater. Original hip-hop score by Justin Ellington. Set and costumes designed by Hiroshi Iwasaki, lighting design by Ryan O’Gara.