Orsino

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Orsino

plays role of languishing lover. [Br. Lit.: Twelfth Night]

See: Sentimentality

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The first twin, Viola, falls in love with Orsino, who dotes on OIivia, who falls for Viola but is idolised by Malvolio.

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sighs Orsino in the opening line of Shakespeare's comedy, Twelfth Night.

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It's all a bit wacky, as when Viola (Dinita Gohil), who we first meet in a sari still fresh from her quickly forgotten shipwreck, falls in love with the slightly potty Orsino (a neat, well-constructed performance from debut RSC actor Nicholas Bishop).

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Group regulars returning to the stage included Ken Knowles, Lichfield's Town Crier, as the amusing Fabian, David Stonehouse as Lady Olivia, Robin Lewitt as a fantastic Duke Orsino and Chris Stanley proved to be a superb Malvolio.

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Viola, shipwrecked and armed with a little hope that she may find her brother Sebastian, disguises herself as a boy named Cesario to serve Orsino as a singer and confidante.

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The set is simple but sufficiently versatile to become the homes of both Orsino and Olivia, a town square and Malvolio's prison.

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So she starts dressing as a man to better make her way, becoming a messenger for a member of the Mafia, Don Orsino.

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Chief Inspector Vic Orsino, Abra Police Provincial Office (PPO) director, said First Lieutenant Johndon Ijoc, Corporal Fammie Agcaoili, and Privates First Class (PFCs) Ulyssis Edgar Ancheta, Bryan Apalin, and Mark Joel Anthony Calweng are now recuperating from wounds sustained in the firefight.

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Olivia winds up falling for Viola instead of Orsino, and meanwhile Viola falls in love with Orsino herself--but can't reveal her love because she's disguised as a man.

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A tragic Malvolio doesn't diminish the beguiling romance at the heart of the play--the ambiguous relationships between Duke Orsino (Liam Brennan), who pines for Olivia (Mark Rylance), who pines for Viola (Samuel Barnett) who pines for Orsino.

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Beginning the story a mandolin-playing Feste, played by the multi-talented Liam O''Brien, unveils the love sick Duke Orsino.

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The most famous English bard put these woeful words in the mouth of the Duke of Orsino when he lamented over the frustration of his courtship with Countess Olivia.