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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.  

Malvolio runs the Lady Olivia’s house with puritanical zeal. By day, strict order is maintained and repeated advances from Olivia’s many admirers are firmly rebuffed.  But after dark, wine flows freely and Olivia’s disreputable Uncle Toby is plotting to settle old scores. When a shipwreck washes up two strangers, the scene is set for a comedy of romantic chaos. 

Olivier Award-winning Oliver Ford Davies is among the greatest Shakespearean actors of his generation, and an Honorary Associate Artist of the RSC. He returns to the OT to play Malvolio for the first time. OT Artistic Director Tom Littler directs Shakespeare’s heartrending and hilarious masterpiece of mistaken identities and secret desires. 

“Such truth, and such clarity, that one feels like cheering” Daily Telegraph on Oliver Ford Davies in King Lear  

“Tom Littler is the most enterprising Shakespearean director outside the big venues” Guardian on Hamlet