Great Performances: Twelfth Night (2025)

About this episode

The episode discusses the recent production of Twelfth Night featuring notable actors and its themes of gender and LGBTQ+ representation.

Send us Fan Mail At long last, we spearhead a new holiday tradition for IER: A Twelfth Night on the Twelfth Night. As we bid farewell to the holiday season and 2025, Jas, River, Conor, and Beth talk about the most recent Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, and Peter Dinklage that PBS very kindly released on their website (and can now be found on the Internet Archive!), and the ways it is very gay and very gender, and the ways it co...

People in this episode

Host: Jas

Guests: River, Conor, Beth

Topics covered

• Shakespeare
• Theater
• Performance
• Holiday Tradition
• Gender
• LGBTQ+

Keywords

• Twelfth Night
• Shakespeare in the Park
• Lupita Nyong'o
• Sandra Oh
• Peter Dinklage
• holiday tradition
• theater review

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PBS, Internet Archive

Books & works: Twelfth Night

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