Filter's Twelfth Night

I was lucky enough to grab this shot just before the show started. Now, if anyone does go and see a Filter version of any Shakespeare play...well, don't expect the ordinary! In this particular production of Twelfth Night, Andy, Clare, Kat, Tom and I saw (with some of these things planned, others, not so planned...I'll leave you to guess which ones!):-

1. Viola asking the audience for a coat and a hat, so she could disguise herself as Sebastian
2. Sir Toby and Sir Andrew cracking open a beer each on-stage
3. During the kitchen scene, Sir Andrew (and members of the audience) were wearing those velcro covered hats and other audience members were throwning tennis balls at them
4. Takeaway Pizza was also served during this scene
5. A massive conga line of the front four rows of the audience ran on-stage
6. In the other carnival scene the cast started doing tequila shots with the audience
7. When Malvolio finds the letter he believes to be from Olivia, a rock song is born, with the actress playing Olivia saying the letters of his name comme un orgasme
8. Malvolio then stripped down to short, tight, gold, lamé (what can only be described as) underwear
9. There was most definitely a little bit of a slip which the entire audience saw! In the question and answer session afterwards we were told by the actor that it had never happened before...and while in Brighton he had been frantically looking for some new ones, as the elastic was going in the ones he was wearing. Poor guy!

Before the show I went round to Kat's to partake in the Shakespeare Dining Club, where Kat made a lovely spaghetti bolognese for Tom and I...and Tom brought some rather nice wine to finish the whole thing off. Great end to a busy day. I would definitely see the production again, I haven't laughed so much at theatre in a long time!