Gender fluid musical spectacle 'Twelfth Night' by Theatre Group Alum back on tour due to great success!

After a successful tour in season 2022-2023, musical Queer comedy Twelfth Night returns to theatres from October 2024. Writer Ayden Carlo created an adaptation of this seventeenth-century Shakespeare play. Once again featuring the infectious music of composer Willem Friede (a.o. of New Cool Collective), Jaike Belfor, Jilles Flinterman, Floyd Koster, Sasha Muller and newcomer Ebony Wilson perform a show about love in every imaginable form. 

Shakespeare

Twelfth Night was once written by Shakespeare as a sneaky Queer party within the norms of the seventeenth century. Because all roles were played by men in England at the time, the play's love scenes and gender confusion had an added layer. In Ayden Carlo's adaptation, Twelfth Night is a gender fluid romcom of today. A play full of love plots and gender confusion. Ayden Carlo wrote this version of Twelfth Night for the young Ayden and all his trans and queer friends. And basically for anyone who needs a queer romcom that is about love and not about society making queer life difficult. 

Composer 

Especially for this performance, composer Willem Friede (New Cool Collective) was asked to provide Twelfth Night with new music. For this, he drew inspiration from original sources. Friede's music takes you to a gender fluid world, where perhaps anything is possible. 

The show

Main character Cesario washes up on Illyria. There, Cesario soon discovers that this may well be the place where he can truly be himself. This gives him self-confidence, so much self-confidence that it immediately lands him a job with Duke Orsinio. Orsinio is in love with Olivia, but she does not like him at all. Cesario is asked to use his talent as a word artist to convey Orsinio's love to Olivia. This he does so well and with such conviction that Olivia is completely thrown off her stride. The consequences of which are handsomely confusing.

About Alum

Theatre group Alum has been making clear and concrete theatre for 33 years. Text theatre with plenty of humour and dynamism for a wide audience. The primal stories they perform come from the classical repertoire from the ancient Greeks to Shakespeare. New repertoire is created regularly, but always based on the beautiful showcase of great stories about human shortcomings.

Credits

Text William Shakespeare Text editing Ayden Carlo Directed Victorine Plante GameFloyd Koster, Sacha Muller, Jilles Flinterman, Jaike Belfor and Ebony Wilson Composition Willem Friede Choreography Christle Tjon A Man  Set design Marcel Dolman Costume design Anouk van Schie Lighting design Benno Barends

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