Bell Shakespeare’s production of Twelfth Night arrives in Canberra and Sydney this October, presented at Canberra Theatre Centre from 13 – 21 October and Sydney Opera House from 26 October – 19 November.

Directed by Heather Fairbairn, who has worked internationally with companies including the Royal Opera, Covent Garden and the Royal Court Theatre in London, this production of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s most musical play, features original music from Aria Award winner Sarah Blasko. Six new songs are sung live onstage by the cast, and the plot is carried along by Blasko’s melancholic score.

Fairbairn places the characters in a garden setting that transforms throughout the play, linking the characters’ own mortality to life cycles in nature and asking them, along with the audience, to find light in the darkness.