Sean Tarrant

TWELFTH NIGHT
COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
2005


Sean Tarrant as Malvolio with Bridgit Antoinette Evan as Maria and Aimée Phelen-Deconinck as Olivia in the Robert Cohen directed production of Twelfth Night, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 2005.

 


"Despite everything, there is a reason to attend this Twelfth Night, and that's Sean Tarrant, whose Malvolio is one of the best I've seen. It's a tricky role. Malvolio is a mean-spirited buffoon, and you enjoy seeing him humiliated. But you're also privy to all his pathetic dreams and self-delusions, and you can't help pitying him when his humiliation is carried to the extreme. Tarrant takes us through every twist and turn of the character's thinking. He's tall and thin, and at first he seems a bit elegant for Malvolio, but he soon reveals a lithe, uninhibited zaniness worthy of John Cleese."

Westword, Boulder, CO

 

"Tarrant's Malvolio is a revelation - a severe, snippish, nitpicker who puts his long limbs to great use as the story moves along."

Daily Camera, Boulder, CO

"And of course there is Malvolio, Olivia's smug man-servant, wonderfully portrayed by Sean Tarrant, who proves to be quite flexible on a pole; yet one must go see the play to see what this is about."

Colorado Daily, Boulder, CO

 

"Sad, lady?
I could be sad:
this does make some obstruction in the blood,
this cross-gartering;
but what of that?
if it please the eye of one,
it is with me as the very true sonnet is,
' Please one, and please all.'"

Malvolio
Twelfth Night

Directed by Robert Cohen
Costume Design :: Janice Benning Lacek
Scenic Design :: Arthur Edward Chadwick
Lighting Design :: Richard M. Devin
 
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