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Twelfth Night review: Greig's brilliant in fun show

Simon Godwin's inventive gender-fluid production of Shakespeare's most perfect comedy has a vital elan and some great performances.

Michael Billington, The Guardian, 23rd February 2017

Twelfth Night review: Tamsin Greig brings comic brio

The National's take on Shakespeare's comedy is great fun - but skilfully brings home the play's pervading air of melancholy.

Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 23rd February 2017

Review: Twelfth Night (Olivier, National Theatre)

Tamsin Greig plays Malvolia in this cross-gender casting version of Shakespeare's bawdy comedy.

Holly Williams, What's On Stage, 23rd February 2017

Review: Twelfth Night, National Theatre

Tamsin Greig leads a triumphant Twelfth Night at The National, ingeniously re-imaging one of Shakespeare's most bitter misanthropes as Malvolia. The production is gloriously wacky and stunning to behold. Truly I saw the future of theatre, and it was beautiful.

Helena Payne, BritishTheatre.com, 23rd February 2017

Twelfth Night, National Theatre, review

Tamsin Greig leads a superb cast in this giddy take on Shakespeare's classic comedy.

Alexandra Coghlan, The Arts Desk, 23rd February 2017

BWW review: Twelfth Night, National Theatre

Suffused with grief and unrequited love, Twelfth Night is often played as an anti-comedy - more melancholy than mirthful. Not so in Simon Godwin's brash, gender-bending, utterly joyful rendering, which takes loss as a cue to embrace life

Marianka Swain, Broadway World, 23rd February 2017

Interview: Tamsin Grieg on starring in Twelfth Night

It's not about 'shoving a square peg into a round hole', Greig says, but testing the boundaries.

Robert Dex, Evening Standard, 23rd February 2017

Twelfth Night at The National Theatre - review

At a running time of around three hours including interval, there is nothing left out of this version of Twelfth Night but it's surprising how the time flies. This is a fun production with the emphasis on the many comedic elements of the story rather than dwelling on the melodramatic side. Everyone plays their part to produce a really great evening's entertainment and present the Bard at his absolute best.

Terry Eastham, London Theatre, 23rd February 2017

Twelfth Night review

Director Simon Godwin and his doughty cast do not put a foot wrong in what must be the National Theatre's best Shakespearean production since Sir Nicholas Hytner's glorious Much Ado About Nothing, 10 years ago.

Philip Fisher, British Theatre Guide, 23rd February 2017

Review: Twelfth Night at the National Theatre

In all her scene-stealing cross-gartered glory: Rosemary Waugh writes a love letter to Tamsin Greig thinly veiled as a review.

Rosemary Waugh, Exeunt Magazine, 23rd February 2017

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