Sara Topham
In Kenya in 1952, Mercy, a restaurant proprietor, is hired to cater the impending visit of Princess Elizabeth, soon to be Queen. In 2015, another story unfolds in London, England, where a young Kenyan-born Canadian, Tia, is working as an intern on a TV drama series about the British royal family – while also pursuing a writing project of her own. These parallel narratives seem only coincidentally connected – until a surprising twist reveals a deeper relationship between the two.
Shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, Viola adopts a male disguise and enters the service of Duke Orsino, only to find herself part of a triangle of unrequited love. Meanwhile, in the household of the Countess Olivia, Sir Toby Belch and his unruly companions trick Olivia's strict and disapproving steward, Malvolio, into believing that she loves him.
Oscar Wilde's 1895 comedy that pokes fun at social conventions and romantic love stars Tony Award winner Brian Bedford, who also directs, as imperious Lady Bracknell, with David Furr and Santino Fontana as British wags who invent alter egos in order to live the high life. Roundabout Theatre Company produces the revival at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre.
