CHIMACUM — Home-schooled students of the Olympic Peninsula Home Connection will perform a Shakespeare comedy this weekend and next in Chimacum and Quilcene.
“Twelfth Night” shows are slated for 7 p.m. tonight and Saturday at the Chimacum Grange, 9572 Rhody Drive in Chimacum. Two more shows are scheduled for 7 p.m. May 18 and 19 at the Serendipity Farm, 141 Cemetery Road in Quilcene.
Admission will be by donation.
“Twelfth Night” is the organization’s sixth annual Shakespeare production.
Students ranging in age from 9 to 14 perform the play.
Past and present students help construct sets, create props, sew costumes, provide the music and are the tech crew for the production.
“Twelfth Night” is a story of mistaken identity, concealed truth and comic hijinks.
After a shipwreck, Viola finds herself washed ashore on the beach of Illyria, having lost her twin brother Sebastian in the storm. Masquerading as a young man, Viola enters the service of Duke Orsino, who is in love with the lady Olivia. The Duke charges the disguised Viola (now Cesario) to help him win Olivia’s hand. Olivia falls in love with the disguised Viola who, in turn, has fallen in love with the Duke.
It gets even more complicated when Sebastian arrives in Illyria, is quickly mistaken for the disguised Viola/Cesario, and finds himself married to Olivia.
Meanwhile, in the court of Countess Olivia, Christmas is over but no one is going home. Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek wreak havoc with an alliance of servants and hangers-on against the high-handedness of their steward, Malvolio.
Eventually all is revealed, the brother and sister are reunited, Olivia discovers the trick that has been played on Malvolio, and the love triangle is resolved into two couples, Sebastian and Olivia, and Viola and Orsino.
Performing in this Shakespearian classic are students Ally Ferens, August Maberry, Filomena Bertucci, Gretel Maberry, Hayden Montgomery, Hunter James, Kai Campbell, Melody Douglas, Nola Bertucci, Owen Hatfield, Pascale Sanok, Peter Sanok, Sierra Douglas, Sophia Yates, TJ Brass, Victoria Brass and William DeJarnatt.
The tech, set construction and costumes crews include Tenzin Blersch, Elijah Bufford, Luca Campbell, Zoey Ferens, Jack Hatfield, Ariel Nieman and Stan Raines.
Zac Ferens, Viola Frank, Rowan Powell and Maria Powell will provide music.
The artistic staff is Consuelo Brennan, Franco Bertucci, Carla Powell, Leah Brass and Cathy Adler.
Olympic Peninsula Home Connection is a program serving families that provide home education with support of the Crescent School District.
For more information, contact Karen Brennan at karenlpbrennan@yahoo.com.
