The RSC's Twelfth Night dumps its audience unceremoniously onto the shores of Ilyria in the thump and beat of waves. While Viola struggles from the (very deep and very real) water, asking "What country friends this this?", we by contrast find ourselves in familiar territory. Like this season's opener, A Comedy of Errors, both Twelfth Night and The Tempest take their birth in the water. But as the triptych progresses …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:10PM on June 11, 2012