A Summer of Live Theatre with Shakespeare’s Comedy Twelfth Night at Fenimore Art Museum’s Lakeside Amphitheater
Performances start July 17 in the Lucy B. Hamilton Amphitheater on the shore of Otsego Lake.
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Lucy B. Hamilton Amphitheater, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Wednesday and Thursday evenings • July 17-August 15 • 7:00 p.m.
Tickets available online at FenimoreArt.org or at the door on the evening of the performance
COOPERSTOWN, NY — Fenimore Art Museum’s Glimmer Globe Theatre announces another summer of live theatre with a new production of William Shakespeare’s raucous comedy, Twelfth Night, set during the turbulent roaring 20’s. Performances take place on Wednesday and Thursday evenings from July 17 through August 15 at 7:00 pm, set against the backdrop of shimmering Otsego Lake at the Museum’s Lucy B. Hamilton Amphitheater. Tickets are available in advance at FenimoreArt.org or at the venue immediately preceding the show.
Merriment, madness, and the music of love abound in Twelfth Night, one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most poignant comedies. Welcome to Port Illyria, 1929. Jazz, revelry, and electric light fill the streets, while booze flows only in secretive, illicit taprooms. Viola, a young girl crossing the ocean in search of a new life, finds herself washed ashore in the harbor following a tragic accident aboard her steamship. She assumes a male disguise to ensure her safety in this strange new metropolis and quickly finds herself in the employ of the grand “Duke” himself, a nightclub owner named Orsino. As he sends her on a mission to deliver pleas of breathless love to a wealthy, grieving heiress named Olivia, Viola is forced to contend with Malvolio, the domineering overseer of her estate and rabidly dry teetotaler. But the bigger problem? Olivia swiftly falls in love with Viola instead…
This production is directed by Manager of Performing Arts Programs, Michael Tamburrino, and features original music by Tim Iverson, choreography by Riley Bowen, and scenic art by Michael Henrici. Twelfth Night features performances by Gillian Canavan, Allie Tabor-Church, John Melvin, Liam Herbert, Tom Russo, Mark Murphy, Mary Fralick, Orion Palmer, Andrew Munro, Claire Nolan, Cait Liberati, Colleen Bunn, Emily Travisano, and Tanner Griffin.
Advance tickets are available at FenimoreArt.org or at the theater immediately preceding the show.
Adults (13-64) $18; Members and Seniors (65+) $16; Youth (7-12) $10; ages six and under are free. (Please select the “free” option for children six and under when purchasing tickets online.) Performance details will be sent via e-mail to ticket holders prior to the performance. Visitors are welcome to bring blankets and chairs. Alcohol is not permitted on the premises. An alternate indoor location is available in the event of inclement weather. If you have any specific questions about the performances, please contact m.tamburrino@fenimoreart.org.
Sponsored in part by The Clark Foundation, Allstadt Hardin Foundation, The Otsego County Board of Representatives, NYCM Insurance, Mr. Tom Morgan and Ms. Erna J. Morgan McReynolds, and Dr. Richard Sternberg.
Fenimore Art Museum is located at 5798 State Route 80, less than one mile from the center of Cooperstown. For more information visit FenimoreArt.org.
About Fenimore Art Museum
Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.
